title: Prevalence of tinea capitis in primary schools in Turkey.
abstract: The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of tinea capitis in Middle Anatolia. Between February 2000 and April 2000, a school survey of 4760 primary school children was carried out and 34 cases of tinea capitis were clinically diagnosed. Sixteen (0.3%) of them were diagnosed both clinically and using culture. Eighteen cases (52.9%) were diagnosed microscopically whereas the remaining 16 cases (47.0%) had a clinical diagnose. We also isolated and identified the following species of fungi causing the infection: Trichophyton verrucosum (five cases), T. rubrum (three), T. mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes (three), Microsporum canis (three) and T. tonsurans (two). We detected a higher rate of infection than that of the country's average.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kocatepe University School of Medicine, Afyon, Turkey. maltindis@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Altindis
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bilgili
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kiraz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ceri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008864:Microsporum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015995:Prevalence; D012574:Schools; D013045:Species Specificity; D013383:Suburban Population; D014006:Tinea Capitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014249:Trichophyton / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology