Aclinicomycological study of superficial fungi in Lahore

ABSTRACT

A clinicomycological study on 230 suspected patients, who attended the dermatology outpatient department of Services Hospital, Lahore from October 1991 to April 1992, was performed to determine the causative fungi and their clinical manifestations. In all patients, fungal hyphae were demonstrated on potassium hydroxide [KOH] mount. Fungal cultures were positive in 222 [95.52%] patients, and negative in 8 [3.48%] patients. The most prevalent aetiological agent identified was Trichophyton tonsurans; the predominant clinical type was Tinea corporis [36.94%] in adults and Tinea capitis [9.91%] in children. The majority of the patients [86.9%] were recorded as symptomatic