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J Bacteriol Parasito
ISSN: 2155-9597 JBP, an open access journal
Microbiology 2016
November 28-29, 2016
November 28-29, 2016 Valencia, Spain
7
th
World Congress on
Microbiology
Prevalence of tinea capitis and corporis in Benghazi
Jamila M M A
l
Shaiki1
and
Abdul Hamed A M Elorfi
2
1
BMC Laboratory Center, Libya
2
Gamhoria Hospital, Libya
A
cross sectional prospective study was carried out over a period of one year from (April 2008-March 2009 ), depending on
prestructured questionnaire, study was carried out on a total of two hundred patients with different age, sex and with clinically
suspected cases with tinea capitis and corporis. Specimens were obtained from skin scales of the lesion. Hair specimens were collected
by plucking the hair with forceps. The aim of this study to identify the etiological agents involved in these infections. Out of 200
patients who presented with suspected superficial fungal and to determine prevalence of tinea capitis and tinea corporis in Benghazi
population. Infected, 113 (56.5%) were male and 87 (43.5%) were female. Out of these, 117 children (65 male and 52 female) were
provisionally diagnosed with tinea capitis and corporis. The youngest patient was a 5 months old infant, whereas the eldest patient
a 71 year old man. Greater number of positive cases of dermatophytes is seen in children under the age of 15 year. Tinea capitis was
predominant in 31 (57.4%) children, while tinea corporis were (14.8%) children. 125 (62.5%), were found to be positive by direct
microscopic examination only, while 50 (25%) by culture only and 45 (22.5%) positive by both techniques. In addition 36 (18%)
patients give positive family history of dermatophytosis, 9 patients of them were positive culture while 55 (27.5%) patients had
history of contact with animals 16 of them were positive culture. Also17 (8.5%) were foreign patients, of these 8 were soudanense. In
this study, the most common sites where dermatophytes in Tinea corporis isolated were the neck and back. Also we observed that,
T. violaceum
was the most common dermatophyte isolated 13 (24%) (mainly among children under age of 15 years).
T. soudanense
9 (16%) was the second common isolated, followed by
T. schoenleinii
8 (14.8%), other dermatophytes in descending order, were
M.
canis
5 (9.3%),
T. mentagrophytes
4 (7.4%), M.
ferrugineum
3 (5.5%),
T. rubrum
3 (5.5%),
T. tonsurans
2 (3.7%),
M. nanum
2 (3.7%),
T. yaoundi
1 (1.8%),
T. terrestre
1 (1.8%),
T. verrucosum
1 (1.8%),
M. audouinii
1 (1.8%) and 1 (1.8%) were unidentified. Culture the
isolates were a mixed of dermatophytes, in 2 cases of tinea capitis the culture revealed in mixed of
T. violaceum
and T. mentagrophytes,
while 2 cases of tinea corporis;
T. tonsurans
and
T. schoenleinii
where the culture revealed a growth of
T. rubrum
and
M. nanum
. The
infection was found to occur more frequently in males (29 cases than in females (25 cases). In the present study, grey patch was the
predominant type of tinea capitis 32 (16%), black dot 2 (1%) and kerion 2 (1%) was the least common types.
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