title: Clinical study of Tinea capitis in Northern Karnataka: A three-year experience at a single institute.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Tinea capitis is a superficial fungal infection of the hair follicle of scalp. Most of the dermatophytosis do not have such age propensity as tinea capitis which almost invariably involves the paediatric age group. The exact incidence of tinea capitis is not known. This study is done in order to isolate the species variation in an area, to know the changing patterns of occurrence of different species and their association with clinical pattern
  
  
  METHODS
  All clinically diagnosed cases of tinea capitis which presented to our out patient department over a period of one year were included in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  70 cases of Tinea capitis were studied.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Tinea capitis is a disease of prepubertal children with common in age group of 5- 15 years. The incidence varies from 0.5% to 10%. Most common presenting feature was alopecia.
authors: Department of Dermatology, SDM College of Medical Sciences, Dharwad, Karnatak, India.
authors: Varadraj V
authors: VV
authors: Pai
authors: Keloji
authors: K
authors: Hanumanthayya
authors: Raghavendra S
authors: RS
authors: Tophakhane
authors: Namrata W
authors: NW
authors: Nandihal
authors: Narayan Shetty Naveen
authors: NS
authors: Kikkeri
keywords: Tinea capitis; children; trichophyton