Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Dermatophytes are fungi that commonly cause superficial skin infections. While these rashes are typically benign and easily treated with topical antifungal medications, extensive presentations can indicate a more serious underlying immunodeficiency. We report on a teenage girl whose extensive rash l...

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Autores principales: Brown, Joelle, Carvey, Matthew, Beiu, Cristina, Hage, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6996472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32042525
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6551
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description Dermatophytes are fungi that commonly cause superficial skin infections. While these rashes are typically benign and easily treated with topical antifungal medications, extensive presentations can indicate a more serious underlying immunodeficiency. We report on a teenage girl whose extensive rash led to a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency infection.
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spelling pubmed-69964722020-02-10 Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Brown, Joelle Carvey, Matthew Beiu, Cristina Hage, Robert Cureus Dermatology Dermatophytes are fungi that commonly cause superficial skin infections. While these rashes are typically benign and easily treated with topical antifungal medications, extensive presentations can indicate a more serious underlying immunodeficiency. We report on a teenage girl whose extensive rash led to a diagnosis of human immunodeficiency infection. Cureus 2020-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6996472/ /pubmed/32042525 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6551 Text en Copyright © 2020, Brown et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
title Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
title_full Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
title_fullStr Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
title_full_unstemmed Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
title_short Atypical Tinea Corporis Revealing a Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
title_sort atypical tinea corporis revealing a human immunodeficiency virus infection
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6996472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32042525
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6551
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