title: Dermatophyte fungi in the Guinea Savannah region of Nigeria and the changing phase of dermatophytosis in Nigeria.
abstract: Approximately 8,000 patients with various skin diseases were seen at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria between January 1983 and December 1986. 174 (2.2%) presented with features in which a clinical diagnosis of superficial fungal infection was made or suspected. 69 out of 190 (36.3%) of specimens taken from skin lesions or nails from these patients were mycologically positive. The fungi isolated were Trichophyton rubrum (24.6%), Tr. soudanense (13.0%), Candida albicans (5.8%) Hendersonula toruloidea (2.9%), Microsporum audouinii (1.5%) and Epidermophyton floccosum (1.5%); 34.8% of the specimens were positive on microscopy but failed to grow. Malassezia furfur was demonstrated in 15.9% of the 69 positive specimens.
authors.forename: O E
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Obasi
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Clayton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002176:Candida albicans / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004821:Epidermophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008290:Malassezia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008297:Male; D008864:Microsporum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003904:Mitosporic Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009549:Nigeria; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification