Carpet weaving: an occupational risk for onychomycosis?
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol
; 24(3): 353-5, 2010 Mar.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19778359
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Some occupations carry a risk for fungal infections.OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the prevalence of onychomycosis in carpet weavers.METHODS:
Seventy-seven weavers (the mean age +/- SD = 32.97 +/- 12.38) from three factories and 77 controls (the mean age +/- SD = 38.32 +/- 12.38) were examined for onychomycosis. Samples from nails and the carpets, which were being weaved, were taken for mycological investigations.RESULTS:
Direct microscopic examination of only two controls' normal-appearing nails was positive. Fungal growth was observed in the culture of four weavers' normal-appearing nails. It was watched over that most of the weavers had polished-appearing nails and were using a glue containing cyanoacrylate to restore their broken nails due to weaving.CONCLUSION:
The fungal growth observed in weavers' nails has been accepted as colonization. There is no data about the presence of fungi on normal-appearing nails. So, we thought that the weavers with fungal colonization should be followed for the development of onychomycosis.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Textiles
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Occupational Exposure
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Onychomycosis
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Foot Dermatoses
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Occupational Diseases
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Year:
2010
Type:
Article