A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India

White piedra is a superficial fungal infection of the hair shaft, caused by Trichosporon, a noncandidal yeast characterized by the presence of numerous, discrete, asymptomatic nodules attached to the infected hair shafts. White piedra is considered a disease of tropical regions and occasionally repo...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Reena Kumari, Verma, Ghanshyam K., Verma, Santwana, Thakur, Saru, Gupta, Anumeha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007477
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_25_18
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author Sharma, Reena Kumari
Verma, Ghanshyam K.
Verma, Santwana
Thakur, Saru
Gupta, Anumeha
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description White piedra is a superficial fungal infection of the hair shaft, caused by Trichosporon, a noncandidal yeast characterized by the presence of numerous, discrete, asymptomatic nodules attached to the infected hair shafts. White piedra is considered a disease of tropical regions and occasionally reported from temperate countries. Although Candida parapsilosis such as Candida albicans is well known to cause cutaneous infections, it has been reported as a co-isolate for white piedra along with Trichosporon. We report a case of white piedra from a temperate region caused by C. parapsilosis.
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spelling pubmed-64634512019-04-19 A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India Sharma, Reena Kumari Verma, Ghanshyam K. Verma, Santwana Thakur, Saru Gupta, Anumeha Int J Trichology Case Report White piedra is a superficial fungal infection of the hair shaft, caused by Trichosporon, a noncandidal yeast characterized by the presence of numerous, discrete, asymptomatic nodules attached to the infected hair shafts. White piedra is considered a disease of tropical regions and occasionally reported from temperate countries. Although Candida parapsilosis such as Candida albicans is well known to cause cutaneous infections, it has been reported as a co-isolate for white piedra along with Trichosporon. We report a case of white piedra from a temperate region caused by C. parapsilosis. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6463451/ /pubmed/31007477 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_25_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Case Report
Sharma, Reena Kumari
Verma, Ghanshyam K.
Verma, Santwana
Thakur, Saru
Gupta, Anumeha
A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India
title A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India
title_full A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India
title_fullStr A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India
title_short A Rare Case of White Piedra Caused by Candida parapsilosis in the Sub-Himalayan Region of North India
title_sort rare case of white piedra caused by candida parapsilosis in the sub-himalayan region of north india
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007477
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_25_18
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