This clinical and mycological investigation was made with 1004 outpatients of clinical dermatophytosis who have visited the dermatological clinic of Keimyung university medical school from July, 1986 to September, 1992.
@ES The results are as follows:
@EN The incidence of superficial fungal infection was 6.5% of total 15l.559 cases of outpatients.
The ratio of male to female patients was 1.5 : 1 and showed more prevalence in male.
Among the age groups, the incidence rate was highest in 3rd decade.
Common fungal diseases were tinea pedis(22.5%), T. cruris(21. 7%), and C. albicans(16.0%).
In KOH preparation of 1004 scrapings, the positive rate was 89.9%.
In cultrual survey of 1004 scrapings, the postitive rate was 56.9%. In 45.9% of scrapings, both culture and KOH mount were positive and the negative KOH scrapings showed 10.2% positive rate. Trichopyhton rubrum was the commonest causative
organism
of
superficial dermatophytosis(59.0%), and others in decreasing frequency were Microsporum canis(9.8%), Trichophyton mentagraphytes(5.0%), Trichophyton verrucosum(0.5%) Microsporum gypseum(0.35%) Microsporum ferrugineum(0.17%).
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