Tinea Capitis Caused by : A Report of Two Cases from Côte D'Ivoire, West Africa.

We report here two cases of tinea capitis caused by in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. The patients were a three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl who presented with scaly patches on the scalp. The causative fungus was isolated using an adhesive tape-sampling method and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar plates. It was identified as both by its macroscopic and microscopic features, confirmed by DNA sequencing. These are the first documented cases of infections confirmed with DNA sequencing to be reported from Côte d'Ivoire. The practicality of the tape-sampling method makes it possible to carry out epidemiological surveys evaluating the distribution of these dermatophytic infections in remote, resource-limited settings.