Clinico‐Mycological Study of Dermatomycoses in Madras (India)

Summary: Three hundred and fifty clinically diagnosed cases of dermatomycoses from a referral hospital in Madras (India) were subjected to mycological investigation during 1980–1982. Skin scrapings and hair and nail clippings from the patients were examined by direct microscopy and culture. The data were analysed to correlate the fungal species with certain factors like age, sex, clinical types and occupation. Among the clinical types encountered, tinea corporis was the most predominant one followed by tinea cruris. The maximum isolates obtained in this study were T. mentagrophytes (96/195) and the pattern of incidence of fungal species was: T. mentagrophytes (49.23%) > Candida spp. (22.05%) > T. rubrum (153%) > E. floccosum (4.61%) = Microsporum spp. (4.61%) > T. violaceum (4.1%).