Clinico-mycological evaluation of onychomycosis at Bangalore and Jorhat.
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol
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2003 Jul-Aug; 69(4): 284-6
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Clinical and mycological features of onychomycosis show variation with time and place. MATERIAL ANDMETHODS:
A study to analyze the morphological variants and mycological isolates of onychomycosis was carried out in 50 patients attending the dermatology out-patient departments at the Air Force Hospitals at Bangalore and at Jorhat. Nail clippings were subjected to direct microscopy and cultured on Sabouraud's Dextrose Agar.RESULTS:
The commonest age group affected (56%) was the 20-40 year age group. The fingernails alone were involved in 24 (48%) patients, the toenails alone in 15 (30%) patients, and both in 11 (22%) patients. Distal and lateral subungual onychomycosis was encountered in 41 (82%) patients, proximal superficial onychomycosis and total dystrophic onychomycosis in 3 each (6%), paronychia in 2 (4%) and superficial white onychomycosis in 1. Of the 59 samples cultured, dermatophytes were grown in 14 (23.7%), non-dermatophyte moulds (NDM) in 13 (22.0%), candida in 10 (16.8%) and no growth in 22 (37.2%) samples.CONCLUSION:
Among the dermatophytes, Trichophyton rubrum, and among the NDM, Aspergillus spp., were the commonest isolates.
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Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol
Year:
2003
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