title: Mycological examination of the hair samples of 11 school-going Nepalese children suspected of tinea capitis.
abstract: Among 150 students from a semi-urban school in Kathmandu (Nepal), 30 from various age groups and both sexes with symptoms suggestive of scalp ringworm, were examined clinically. Hair samples were collected for mycological examination, using the hair brush method, from 11 of the 30 children (36.7%), aged between 5 and 14 years, who were clinically diagnosed. Four of the cultured samples were positive for isolates of Trichophyton violaceum. This minor study provides evidence that tinea capitis might constitute a substantial infectious dermatological problem in Nepal. The study also indicated T. violaceum as the causative organism of tinea capitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Basnet
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Basnet
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hiruma
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inaba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makimura
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kawada
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009390:Nepal; D014006:Tinea Capitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification*