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Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya

BACKGROUND: Tinea capitis is a common infection especially in poor resource settings. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence Tinea capitis in children from selected schools from an urban slum in Nairobi city of Kenya. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 150 school going c...

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Autores principales: Moto, Jedidah Ndunge, Maingi, John Muthini, Nyamache, Anthony Kebira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26116079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1240-7
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description BACKGROUND: Tinea capitis is a common infection especially in poor resource settings. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence Tinea capitis in children from selected schools from an urban slum in Nairobi city of Kenya. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 150 school going children during the period between May and September 2013. A questionnaire was administered and cultures of scalps, skin scrapping/hair stubs samples were performed and the etiological agents identified and confirmed. RESULTS: In a total of one hundred and fifty (150) children recruited 89 (59.3%) were males and 61 (40.7%) females aged between 3 and 14 years. The overall prevalence rates in dermatophytes infection was 81.3% (122/150) with etiological agents consisting Trichophyton spp. (61.3%), Microsporum spp. (13.3%) and Epidermophyton spp. (7.3%) infections with infections occurring either singly (56%), duo (38%) or tipple co-infections (6%). CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates a high prevalence of Tinea infections with Trichophyton tonsurans as the predominant etiological agent in school going children of the urban slums of Nairobi. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1240-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-44832012015-06-28 Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya Moto, Jedidah Ndunge Maingi, John Muthini Nyamache, Anthony Kebira BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Tinea capitis is a common infection especially in poor resource settings. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence Tinea capitis in children from selected schools from an urban slum in Nairobi city of Kenya. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 150 school going children during the period between May and September 2013. A questionnaire was administered and cultures of scalps, skin scrapping/hair stubs samples were performed and the etiological agents identified and confirmed. RESULTS: In a total of one hundred and fifty (150) children recruited 89 (59.3%) were males and 61 (40.7%) females aged between 3 and 14 years. The overall prevalence rates in dermatophytes infection was 81.3% (122/150) with etiological agents consisting Trichophyton spp. (61.3%), Microsporum spp. (13.3%) and Epidermophyton spp. (7.3%) infections with infections occurring either singly (56%), duo (38%) or tipple co-infections (6%). CONCLUSION: This study demonstrates a high prevalence of Tinea infections with Trichophyton tonsurans as the predominant etiological agent in school going children of the urban slums of Nairobi. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1240-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4483201/ /pubmed/26116079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1240-7 Text en © Moto et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Nyamache, Anthony Kebira
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title Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
title_full Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
title_fullStr Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
title_short Prevalence of Tinea capitis in school going children from Mathare, informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
title_sort prevalence of tinea capitis in school going children from mathare, informal settlement in nairobi, kenya
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26116079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1240-7
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