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

  1. Asja Prohic

Article first published online: 5 SEP 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01451.x

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Mycoses

Mycoses

Volume 51, Issue 2, pages 161–164, March 2008

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Prohic, A. (2008), An epidemiological survey of tinea capitis in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina over a 10-year period. Mycoses, 51: 161–164. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01451.x

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University Clinical Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

*Asja Prohic, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, University Clinical Center, Bolnicka 25, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tel.: +387 33 213490. Fax: +387 33 213490. E-mail: asjaprohic@hotmail.com

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 28 OCT 2007
  2. Article first published online: 5 SEP 2007
  3. Accepted for publication 31 July 2007

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Keywords:

  • Tinea capitis;
  • dermatophytes;
  • epidemiology;
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary

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%).

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