der·mat·o·phyte

(dûr-măt′ə-fīt′, dûr′mə-tə-)

Any of various parasitic fungi that cause infections of the skin, hair, or nails.

der·mat′o·phyt′ic (-fĭt′ĭk) adj.

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dermatophyte

(ˈdɜːmətəʊˌfaɪt)

(Pathology) any parasitic fungus that affects the skin

dermatophytic adj

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der•mat•o•phyte

(dərˈmæt əˌfaɪt, ˈdɜr mə tə-)

n.

any fungus parasitic on the skin and causing a skin disease, as ringworm.

[1880–85]

der•mat`o•phyt′ic (-ˈfɪt ɪk) adj.

der•mat`o•phy•to′sis, n.

Translations

der·ma·to·phyte

n. dermatófito, hongo parásito que ataca la piel.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

dermatophyte

n dermatofito

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The use of an intermittent terbinafine regimen for the treatment of dermatophyte toenail onychomycosis.

Onychomycosis: The Most Common Misdiagnosis in Nail Disease

Over the past two decades, he has worked at several research and clinical laboratories in Australia and the United States of America, with focuses on molecular characterization and virulence determination of microbial pathogens (e.g., ovine footrot bacterium, dermatophyte fungi and foodborne listeria) and more recently on the development of nucleic acid-based quality assurance models for security sensitive and emerging viral pathogens.

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Dermatophyte infections in Primorsko-Goranska County, Croatia: a 21-year survey.

THE PREVALENCE OF ONYCHOMYCOSIS IN THE ZAGREB AREA--THE ROLE OF SABOURAUD AGAR WITHOUT CYCLOHEXIMIDE IN DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY

[19, 20, 21] The variation in incidence of specific dermatophyte species in a particular area could be explained due to population movement, immigration, socioeconomic status, environmental factors, lifestyle, cultural practices, change in climatic conditions and drug therapies.

A STUDY OF PREVALENCE OF DERMATOPHYTES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF NORTHERN INDIA

The treatment choice is oral terbinafine for tinea capitis with kerion, a scalp dermatophyte infection with a concurrent inflammatory process.

Tinea capitis with kerion

(1) In this case, the patient's dermatitis was the result of a dermatophyte infection (tinea capitis), but an id reaction can also occur in response to noninfectious dermatitides and may be of an atopic, contact, or seborrheic nature.

QUIZ

Superficial dermatophytoses are one of the most frequent infections in the last decades, that are going to increase day by day.4 Tinea corporis, ringworm of the body, includes any type of dermatophyte infection that does not appear in scalp, beard, hand, feet, or nails.

Relationship of amino acid concentrations in blood with occurrence of dermatophytosis

Most of the samples were infected with single type of dermatophyte genus; however, some clinical samples produced results of mixed infection by producing characteristic bands of Microsporum and Trichophyton (Figure 1).Fifty two clinically positive samples were tested for dermatophytosis by uniplex PCR out of which 46 samples (88.46%) were found positive.

DIFFERENTIAL MOLECULAR DETECTION OF DERMATOPHYTES IN DOGS USING COMMON PAIR OF OLIGOS IN A UNIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION

Dermtophytes appear to be the chief organisms responsible for the infection though onychomycosis can be caused by non dermatophyte moulds and yeasts also4.

COMPARISON OF YIELDS OF KOH MOUNT AND PAS STAINING OF NAIL CLIPPINGS FOR HYPHAE IN CASES OF ONYCHOMYCOSIS

Out of 86 dermatophyte isolates in the present study, 69.8% were represented by T.

Dermatophytosis: Prevalence of Dermatophytes and Non-Dermatophyte Fungi from Patients Attending Arsho Advanced Medical Laboratory, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia