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Superficial Fungal Infections and Artificial Intelligence: A Review on Current Advances and Opportunities: REVISION.
Mycoses
January 2025
School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background: Superficial fungal infections are among the most common infections in world, they mainly affect skin, nails and scalp without further invasion. Superficial fungal diseases are conventionally diagnosed with direct microscopy, fungal culture or histopathology, treated with topical or systemic antifungal agents and prevented in immunocompetent patients by improving personal hygiene. However, conventional diagnostic tests can be time-consuming, also treatment can be insufficient or ineffective and prevention can prove to be demanding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComprehensive Review on Tinea Infection Therapies: Allopathic and Herbal Approaches for Dermatophytosis.
Recent Adv Antiinfect Drug Discov
January 2025
Guru Gobind Singh College of Pharmacy, Yamunanagar, Haryana, 135001, India.
Background: Tinea infections are superficial fungal infections caused by three species of fungi (i.e. Epidermophyton, Microsporum, and Trichophyton) collectively termed dermatophytes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploring Pediatric Dermatology in Skin of Color: Focus on Dermoscopy.
Life (Basel)
December 2024
Institute of Dermatology, Department of Medical Area, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.
This literature review aims to comprehensively evaluate the clinical and dermoscopic presentations of common pediatric diseases among children with skin of color (SoC) while also addressing potential variations based on racial backgrounds. This review encompasses various conditions, such as nevi subtypes, viral infections, infestations, and inflammatory dermatoses, as well as hair diseases and abnormal vascular formations, occurring in pediatric populations. Overall, we identified 7 studies on nevi subtypes, 24 studies on skin infections, 6 on inflammatory dermatoses, 10 on hair diseases and disorders, and 14 on miscellaneous disorders that also satisfied our SoC- and race-specific criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntifungal Resistance Patterns of Microsporum canis: A 27-Year MIC Study in Mainland China.
Mycoses
January 2025
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
Background: Microsporum canis, a dermatophyte commonly associated with pets, is a leading cause of severe tinea capitis. The increasing prevalence of antifungal resistance among dermatophytes poses a significant global health challenge.
Objectives: This study aims to define the updated antifungal susceptibility profile of M.
Prevalence of tinea capitis among schoolchildren in Mahajanga, northern Madagascar: An epidemio-clinical survey using conventional, proteomic and molecular approaches.
J Mycol Med
December 2024
Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Hôpital Universitaire Avicenne, AP-HP, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 93009 Bobigny, France. Electronic address:
Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence, clinical, and epidemiological features of tinea capitis (TC) in schoolchildren in Mahajanga city, north-west Madagascar, to identify the etiological dermatophyte species by morphological, proteomic and molecular approaches and ultimately to analyze the risk factors promoting TC in the studied region.
Methods: A survey was conducted in a randomly selected primary school. Symptomatic schoolchildren with signs resembling TC were sampled by scraping and sterile swabbing after examination of the scalp with a Wood's lamp.
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