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An epidemiological survey of tinea capitis in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina over a 10-year period.

Prohic A

Department of Dermatology, University Clinical Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. asjaprohic@hotmail.com

The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and aetiological agents of tinea capitis in Sarajevo area, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during a 10-year period (1997-2006). A total of 707 patients with suspected dermatophyte infections of scalp was analysed. Tinea capitis was determined in 241 (34.1%) of these patients, in whom causative agents were identified in 209 (29.6%). Zoophilic dermatophytes (91.8%) prevailed over anthropophilic (7.2%) and geophilic (1.0%) dermatophytes. Microsporum canis was the most frequent dermatophyte isolated (90.4%), followed by Trichophyton schoenleinii (2.4%) and Trichophyton violaceum (1.9%). The majority of infections occurred in males (56.5%) and in children with age less than 10 years (52.6%).

Published 7 February 2008 in Mycoses, 51(2): 161-4.
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