tinea pedis/inflammation

Undetected tinea pedis in a patient with diabetes can lead to serious bacterial infections with potentially serious consequences, such as foot amputations. Here we report on a 60-year-old patient with diabetes presenting with pain, severe pruritus, and malodour in the foot's interdigital area, and

BACKGROUND Tinea pedis and tinea manuum in children are more common than previously recognized. Clinical presentations of dermatophyte infections may vary in children and may be difficult to diagnose. OBJECTIVE To show the necessity of potassium hydroxide preparations and/or fungal cultures in

Tinea pedis is uncommon in prepubescent children and therefore the diagnosis may be difficult to make. We report tinea pedis in five children presenting as unilateral inflammatory lesions of the sole which was not readily diagnosed. The pathogen in all of our cases was Trichophyton rubrum.

The efficacy and safety of monotherapy with oxiconazole nitrate cream, 1 percent, a topical broadspectrum antifungal agent, were compared with those of combination therapy with oxiconazole nitrate cream, 1 percent, and fluticasone propionate cream, 0.05 percent, in a multicenter, randomized,

BACKGROUND Tea tree oil is the essential oil steam-distilled from Melaleuca alternifolia, an Australian native plant. In recent years it has become increasingly popular as an antimicrobial for the treatment of conditions such as tinea pedis and acne. OBJECTIVE To investigate the anti-inflammatory

BACKGROUND Tinea pedis is the most common chronic fungal infection. Naftifine hydrochloride is a topical antifungal of the allylamine class, displaying fungicidal activity and clinically significant anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of

The most common presentation of tinea pedis (athlete's foot) is that involving the interdigital spaces. Tinea pedis interdigitalis may present as asymptomatic dermatophytosis simplex or dermatophytosis complex, which is symptomatic, with secondary bacterial infection. In the dermatophytosis complex

A total of 2306 patients were examined for ' the clinical evidence of tinea pedis. Only 52 of these were found to suffer from this condition. Trichophyton rubrum was the commonest (47.6%) isolate and it produced predominantly non-inflammatory scaly lesions. T mentagrophytes was the next commonest

Tea tree oil (an essential oil derived primarily from the Australian native Melaleuca alternifolia) has been used as a topical antiseptic agent since the early part of this century for a wide variety of skin infections; however, to date, the evidence for its efficacy in fungal infections is still

BACKGROUND Tinea pedis is the most common superficial fungal infection. Naftifine hydrochloride is a topical antifungal of the allylamine class, displaying fungicidal activity and clinically significant anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. Clinical data on topical antifungal therapy using

Tinea pedis is a common inflammatory skin condition due to infection by dermatophyte fungi. A number of epidemiological studies have been completed on the frequency of tinea pedis in the community, particularly sporting and occupational groups and schools. Most studies have focused on small,

OBJECTIVE Observational study of all incident Tinea pedis cases, realised from 2001 to 2007 at the Dermatology Clinic of the University of Cagliari, Italy, which is the main reference centre for dermatologic diseases in central southern Sardinia. METHODS All patients referred for foot inflammatory

Arthrospores of Trichophyton mentagrophytes were inoculated on to the plantar part of a guinea pig foot by a newly devised non-abrasive method. Anthropophilic and zoophilic isolates required inocula of 280 and 80 arthrospores to infect 50% of inoculated feet, but much larger inocula (5 X 10(4)) were

Trichophytosis, a common dermatophytosis, affects nearly 20-25% of the world's population. However, little is known about mechanisms for preventing colonization of Trichophyton on the skin. Dermcidin, an antimicrobial peptide that provides innate immunity to the skin and is constitutively secreted