A Localized Outbreak in New York of Tinea Capitis Due to Trichophyton Violaceum
- 1 December 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 78 (6) , 689-691
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1958.01560120009002
Abstract
Infection of the scalp with Trichophyton violaceum is a rare finding in the United States, although it is common in other areas of the world.1-3At the Skin and Cancer Unit of University Hospital, New York, there have been eight cases of tinea capitis due to T. violaceum from 1946 through 1957 (seven cases reported before 19564and one since). Other sporadic cases of scalp infection with this organism have been reported.5,6 The observation of two species of fungi simultaneously infecting the same scalp is rare. Muskatblit7has reviewed the earlier literature on this subject and reported his own case of a combined scalp infection with T. schoenleini and T. violaceum. Other reports describe mixed infections of the scalp with Microsporum audouini and M. canis,8T. schoenleini and T. violaceum,9T. violaceum and T. tonsurans,2,10and T. granulosum and T.Keywords
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