RESUMO
Hendersonula toruloidea infection is present in Thailand, where the clinical picture of tinea pedis is scales 61%, erythema 22%, maceration 10.8%, and hyperkeratosis 9%. The diagnosis was confirmed by repeated isolation of H. toruloidea. The slow-growing type was found more often than the fast-growing in the ratio of 2.8:1. In patients with H. toruloidea infection, skin test with Hs antigen of 1:10 was positive. Griseofulvin sensitivity test revealed that the MIC of 20 cultures was more than 100 micrograms/ml. Only 2 out of 93 cases (0.02%) were cured with half-strength Whitfield ointment for 4 months. Pathomechanism of the infection is being studied.
Assuntos
Fungos Mitospóricos/isolamento & purificação , Tinha dos Pés/microbiologia , Griseofulvina/uso terapêutico , Humanos , Ceratose/diagnóstico , Estudos Retrospectivos , Testes Cutâneos , Tailândia , Tinha dos Pés/diagnóstico , Tinha dos Pés/tratamento farmacológico , Tinha dos Pés/patologiaRESUMO
Corynebacterium pyogenes was isolated from leg ulcers found in 495 school children during an epidemic in Thailand in 1979 and 1980. Although C. pyogenes is frequently isolated from cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats, and less frequently from rabbits and guinea pigs, it rarely infects humans, where respiratory infections far outweigh skin infections. Cutaneous infections usually begin with a superficial abscess, then a frostbite-like lesion, followed by ulceration and even gangrene.