A 37-year-old man attends with an intensely itchy rash on both hands. It affects his fingers and palms and is something he has suffered in the past – especially in the spring and summer. There is no ...

Objectives To inform point-of-care test (POCT) development, we quantified the primary care demand for laboratory microbiology tests by describing their frequencies overall, frequencies of positives, ...

The antimicrobial activity of copaiba oils was tested against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, yeast, and dermatophytes. Oils obtained from Copaifera martii, Copaifera officinalis, and ...

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Candidiasis, a fungal infection, is caused by the overgrowth of Candida species, most often Candida albicans, a type of yeast. Candida organisms naturally live in parts of the body, including the ...

Dermatophytes are keratinophilic fungi that is a unique group of fungi that infect keratinous tissue (skin, hair, and nails) of a living human hosts and other animals to produce an infection ...

Laboratório de Glicobiologia de Eucariotos, Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro ...

Up to 20% of the world's population is affected by fungal skin infections of the groin ('jock' itch, or tinea cruris) or of the body (ringworm, or tinea corporis), which generally appear as red and ...

We reviewed evidence about the effect of topical and device-based treatments for fungal infections of the toenails (toenail onychomycosis) when compared against each other, placebo (an identical but ...

Onychomycosis, a common nail disease, is caused by a diverse range of pathogens worldwide. However, the epidemiology and pathogen profile of onychomycosis in China remain insufficiently characterized.