The Control of Tinea Capitis Among Indigent Populations

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Abstract
143 children with tinea capitis caused by Microsporum audouini were treated with 3 g of griseofulvin given orally as a single dose. The rate of conversion of negative culture was slow, usually 1 to 7 months, but the use of negative cultures as the criterion of cure was complicated by the possibility of scalp contamination with dermatophytes. Loss of fluorescence occurred more rapidly than loss of the organism. In a study of 73 children at one school 28 were Wood''s light negative by the 6th week and 54, cumulatively, by the 8th week. Nearly all of the children showed a rapid reduction in intensity of infection and, it was hypothesized, contagiousness.