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Trichophyton rubrum autoinoculation from infected nails is not such a rare phenomenon.

Szepietowski JC, Matusiak L

Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Medical University, Wrocław, Poland.

Kerion-like lesions are usually caused by zoophilic dermatophytes. Here, we present a rare case report - an inflammatory tinea barbae due to an anthropophilic fungus (Trichophyton rubrum), which is the main pathogen of onychomycosis and tinea pedis. Probably the infection, in the presented case, spread from diseased fingernails. We do postulate that physicians should consider autoinoculation as a not so rare way of fungal infection transmission.

Published 21 April 2008 in Mycoses.
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