MONILIAL INFECTION OF THE THUMB NAIL

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Candida albicans is known to affect finger nails,1producing an onychomycosis, usually accompanied by paronychia. This type of infection is found, most commonly, in persons whose hands are frequently in water. Kingery and Thienes2reported an epidemic of monilial paronychia and dermatitis of the hands occurring in the workers of a canning factory where the employees handled fresh fruit. In most of the reports in the literature, such as those by Scott,3MacCormack4and Gray,5similar types of predisposing causes were noted. The following case is reported because of the unusual source of infection. REPORT OF A CASE J. N., a 4 year old white boy, was seen because of a tender, distorted, crumbling and brown left thumb nail. There was a definite history of thrush of the mouth eighteen months previously, which had been diagnosed by culture and cured by the local use of

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