Ortiz SD, Flores LL, Guzmán A

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ABSTRACT

Background: Dermatophytosis in children are commonly observed in dermatological patients and frequency varies upon socio-cultural or geographic factors.
Objectives: To present the statistical data of dermatophytosis observed in children in Asunción, Paraguay.
Methodology: Retrospective study of 302 samples from patients from a private consultation. KOH and cultures in Sabouraud dextrose agar were performed.
Results: 132 cases (70 males and 62 females) presented Tinea Capitis (44%); 110 (56 males and 54 females), Tinea Corporis (36%); 41 (25 males and 16 females), Tinea Pedis (14%); and 19 patients (12 males and 7 females), Tinea Unguium (6%); querion was observed in 8 cases (2.5%); 6 due to Microsprum Gypseum (5 males and one female), and some cases (2 females) caused by Trichopyton Mentagrophytes var. Mentagrophytes from infected rodents; 4 cases (2 males and 2 females) with epidermophytosis of the diaper area due to E. Floccosum and Trichopyton Mentagrophytes var. Interdigitale was the usual agent in Tinea Pedis and T. Rubrum in onychomychosis.
Conclusions: M. Gypseum is the usual etiologic agent in inflammatory Tinea Capitis. Onychomicosis and Tinea Pedis in children had a frequency of 6% and 14%, respectively. T. Mentagrophytes: var. Mentagrophytes caused inflammatory and ulcerated cases and usually the dermatophyte came from a rodent; all the cases of dermatophytosis of the diaper area was due to E. Floccosum. We observed a case of Tinea Corporis Gladiatorum.

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