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Dystrophic onychomycosis due to Microsporum gypseum.

Romano C, Ghilardi A, Fimiani M

A case of onychomycosis with nail dystrophy due to Microsporum gypseum in a healthy 35-year-old woman is described. The infection had a 2-year history, occurring in the site of a nail trauma sustained in a fall from a horse. Diagnosis was based on mycological examination (direct microscope observation and culture). Clinical and mycological recovery was achieved after local treatment with ciclopiroxolamine nail solution and pulsed systemic terbinafine therapy.

Published 20 June 2006 in Mycoses, 49(4): 335-7.
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