title: Microsporum nanum--a report from Malawi (Africa).
abstract: Microsporum nanum Fuentes 1956 has been identified in scrapings from a skin lesion in a patient in Karonga District, Malawi, Africa. We believe that this is the first such identification from the African continent. The patient had a single skin lesion in his popliteal fossa and was known to rear pigs.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008295:Malawi; D008297:Male; D008864:Microsporum / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013552:Swine