title: The Auckland skin clinic tinea pedis and erythrasma study.
abstract: Three hundred consecutive patients attending the Auckland Hospital dermatology clinic were examined clinically and microbiologically for evidence of interdigital or plantar mycological or bacterial infection. One hundred and nine patients were shown by laboratory investigation to have an infection. Of these, only 89 displayed clinical signs of infection. Erythrasma, a desquamative condition caused by Corynebacterium minutissimum, was the commonest infection in this study. The commonest dermatophyte isolated was Trichophyton mentagrophytes var interdigitale. There was a significant rise in the incidence of both types of infection with age.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Auckland Hospital.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Christmas
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: McKinney
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parr
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Oliver
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D003880:Dermatology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014008:Tinea Pedis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification