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Paediatr Child Health
November 2009
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics;
The present report describes a case of tinea capitis in a boy with autistic spectrum disorder and an aversion to oral medications. He refused weekly oral fluconazole and there was a poor response to daily rectal griseofulvin. He tolerated once-weekly rectal fluconazole (10 mg/kg) well and there was an excellent clinical outcome.
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January 2009
University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Background: The patient was aged 34 when he consulted a dermatologist in Vancouver BC with onychomycosis affecting the right great toenail.
Case Presentation: Trichophyton rubrum was cultured from nail clippings. Griseofulvin was taken for 6 months, resulting in clinical and mycological cure.
J Feline Med Surg
February 2009
Dipartimento di Patologia Animale, Profilassi ed Igiene degli Alimenti, University of Pisa, Viale delle Piagge 2, I 56124 Pisa, Italy.
The effectiveness of enilconazole (4 weekly rinses with a 0.2% solution) or griseofulvin (50mg/kg twice daily for 40 days) following a pre-treatment with oral lufenuron (100mg/kg by-weekly for 8 weeks) was tested on 25 (11+14) Microsporum canis infected cats. Control animals were treated with lufenuron, griseofulvin and enilconazole alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAustralas J Dermatol
May 2007
Department of Dermatology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Microsporum canis is the causative organism in less than 10% of all tinea capitis infections in the UK. Transmission is generally via contact with an infected family pet and there are only rare reports of case clustering. This article describes an outbreak of M.
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