title: Widespread tinea corporis in an immunocompetent patient resistant to all conventional forms of treatment.
abstract: A 70-year-old immunocompetent man with a more than forty-year history of tinea corporis unresponsive to multiple systemic and topical antifungal agents, including systemic terbinafine, is described. The literature with respect to persistent dermatophyte infection is reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Brown University, Department of Dermatology, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Vittorio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008297:Male; D009281:Naphthalenes / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000077291:Terbinafine; D014005:Tinea / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000276:immunology; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D000935:Antifungal Agents; D009281:Naphthalenes; D000077291:Terbinafine