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Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa
We report here two cases of tinea capitis caused by Microsporum (M.) audouinii in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The patients were a three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl who presented with scaly patches on the scalp. The causative fungus was isolated using an adhesive tape-sampling method and cul...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7838880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33445615 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6010009 |
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author | Yotsu, Rie Roselyne Kouadio, Kouamé Yao, Aubin Vagamon, Bamba Takenaka, Motoi Murota, Hiroyuki Makimura, Koichi Nishimoto, Katsutaro |
author_facet | Yotsu, Rie Roselyne Kouadio, Kouamé Yao, Aubin Vagamon, Bamba Takenaka, Motoi Murota, Hiroyuki Makimura, Koichi Nishimoto, Katsutaro |
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description | We report here two cases of tinea capitis caused by Microsporum (M.) audouinii in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The patients were a three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl who presented with scaly patches on the scalp. The causative fungus was isolated using an adhesive tape-sampling method and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar plates. It was identified as M. audouinii both by its macroscopic and microscopic features, confirmed by DNA sequencing. These are the first documented cases of M. audouinii infections confirmed with DNA sequencing to be reported from Côte d’Ivoire. The practicality of the tape-sampling method makes it possible to carry out epidemiological surveys evaluating the distribution of these dermatophytic infections in remote, resource-limited settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-78388802021-01-28 Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa Yotsu, Rie Roselyne Kouadio, Kouamé Yao, Aubin Vagamon, Bamba Takenaka, Motoi Murota, Hiroyuki Makimura, Koichi Nishimoto, Katsutaro Trop Med Infect Dis Case Report We report here two cases of tinea capitis caused by Microsporum (M.) audouinii in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The patients were a three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl who presented with scaly patches on the scalp. The causative fungus was isolated using an adhesive tape-sampling method and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar plates. It was identified as M. audouinii both by its macroscopic and microscopic features, confirmed by DNA sequencing. These are the first documented cases of M. audouinii infections confirmed with DNA sequencing to be reported from Côte d’Ivoire. The practicality of the tape-sampling method makes it possible to carry out epidemiological surveys evaluating the distribution of these dermatophytic infections in remote, resource-limited settings. MDPI 2021-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7838880/ /pubmed/33445615 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6010009 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Yotsu, Rie Roselyne Kouadio, Kouamé Yao, Aubin Vagamon, Bamba Takenaka, Motoi Murota, Hiroyuki Makimura, Koichi Nishimoto, Katsutaro Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa |
title | Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa |
title_full | Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa |
title_fullStr | Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa |
title_short | Tinea Capitis Caused by Microsporum audouninii: A Report of Two Cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa |
title_sort | tinea capitis caused by microsporum audouninii: a report of two cases from côte d’ivoire, west africa |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7838880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33445615 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6010009 |
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