Causative agents of tinea capitis isolated from the patients in Hubei province and surrounding area in China during 1960-2015
MAO Ye-hong
HE Meng-wen
ZHENG Yue-chen
LIAN Xin
ZENG Jing-si
Abstract：Objective To understand the pathogens of tinea capitis during the period 1960-2015.Methods Fungal strains isolated from the patients with tinea capitis in the Medical Mycology Clinical Laboratory were subjected to a classification and statistical analysis.Morphological,physiological and biochemical methods were applied for fungal identification.Results Tinea capitis prevalence was high in the 1960s,with Trichophyton violaceum (41.9 ％) and Trichophyton schoenleinii (31.0 ％) being the most common pathogenic species,while the cases decreased sharply in the 1970s.Later in the 1990s,the proportion of Microsporum canis dropped to 1％ after its peak (36.9 ％).T.violaceum had replaced T.schoenleinii and become the most common species (63 ％).T.schoenleinii and Trichoph yton rubrum tended to infect adults,while T.violaceum,M.canis,Trichophyton interdigitale and Microsporum ferrugineum were more likely to infected children.The proportion of female patients among adults (64.6％) was higher than that of children (50.6％) (T.schoenleinii excluded) (P＜0.05).Conclusion The pathogens of tinea capitis changed over time and now T.violaceum had become the most common species in the district.
Keywords：tinea capitisTrichophyton schoenleiniiTrichophyton violaceumMicrosporum canisTrichophyton interdigitale
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 98-101,105 )