Increased incidence of Trichophyton tonsurans tinea capitis in Ontario, Canada between 1985 and 1996

References

• Pipkin JL. Tinea capitis in the adult and adolescent. Arch Dermatol 1952; 66: 9–36
   Google Scholar
• Georg LK. Trichophyton tonsurans ringworm—a new public health problem. Public Health Rep 1952; 67: 53–56
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crissey JT, Martin R. A new form of scalp ringworm in western New York. NY State J Med 1960; 60: 679–682
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bronson DM, Desai DR, Barsky S, Foley SM. An epidemic of infection with Tricophyton tonsurans revealed in a 20-year survey of fungal infections in Chicago. J Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 8: 322–330
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Herbert AA, Head ES, Macdonald EM. Tinea capitis caused by Tricophyton tonsurans. Pediatr Dermatol 1985; 2: 219–223
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Wilmington M, Aly R, Frieden IJ. Trichophyton tonsurans tinea capitis in the San Francisco Bay area: increased infection demonstrated in a 20-year survey of fungal infections from 1974 to 1994. J Med Vet Mycol 1996; 34: 285–287
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Lobato MN, Vugia DJ, Frieden IJ. Tinea capitis in California children: a population-based study of a growing epidemic. Pediatrics 1997; 99: 551–554
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blank F, Strachan AA. Infections due to Trichophyton tonsurans and Trichophyton sulfureum in rural eastern Quebec. Mycopathol Mycol Appl 1962; 18: 207–212
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bakerspigel A. Trichophyton tonsurans var. sulfureum in southwestern Ontario. Sabouraudia 1963; 3: 50–51
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Sinski JT, Fouras K. A survey of dermatophytes isolated from human patients in the United States from 1979 to 1981 with chronological listings of worldwide incidence of five dermatophytes oftenisolated in the United States. Mycopathologia 1984; 85: 97–120
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sinski JT, Kelley LM. A survey of dermatophytes isolated from human patients in the United States from 1982 to 1984. Mycopathologia 1987; 98: 35–40
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sinski JT, Kelley LM. A survey of dermatophytes from human patients in the United States from 1985 to 1987. Mycopathologia 1991; 114: 117–126
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fischer JB, Kane J. The laboratory diagnosis of dermatophytosis complicated with Candida albicans. Can J Microbiol 1974; 20: 167–182
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Malloch D. Moulds. Their isolation, cultivation and identification. University of Toronto Press, TorontoCanada
   Google Scholar
• Rippon TW. Forty four years of dermatophytes in a Chicago clinic (1944 to 1988). Mycopathologia 1992; 119: 25–28
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Laude TA, Shah BR, Lynfield Y. Tinea capitis in Brooklyn. Am J Dis Child 1982; 136: 1047–1050
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Frieden IJ. Tinea capitis: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and control. J Am Acad Dermatol 1994; 31: S42–S46
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leeming JG, Elliott TS. The emergency of Trichophyton tonsurans tinea capitis in Birmingham, UK. Br J Dermatol 1995; 133: 929–931
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Babel DE, Baughman SA. Evaluation of the adult carrier state in juvenile tinea capitis caused by Trichophyton tonsurans. J Am Acad Dermatol 1989; 21: 1209–1212
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kwon Chung KJ, Bennett JE. Medical Mycology. Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia 1992
   Google Scholar
• Koyama H, Cecka JM, Terasaki PI. Kidney transplants in black recipients. Transplantation 1994; 57: 1064–1068
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Georg LK. Epidemiology of the dermatophytosis, sources of infection, modes of transmission and epidemicity. Ann NY Acad Sci 1960; 89: 69–77
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baxter DL. Superficial and deep mycotic infections. Dermatology, SL Moschella, DM Pillsburg, HJ Hurley. WB Saunders, Philadelphia 1975; 621–707, In
   Google Scholar
• Neil G, Hanslo D, Buccimazza S, Kibel M. Control of the carrier state of scalp dermatophytes. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1990; 9: 57–58
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Donald GF. Persistent tinea capitis. Clinical Reports of the Adelaide Children's Hospital 1958–1959; 3: 119–129
   Google Scholar
• Allen HB, Honig P, Leyden J, McGinley KJ. Selenium sulfide: adjunctive therapy for tinea capitis. Pediatrics 1982; 69: 81–83
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright S, Robertson VJ. Institutional survey of tinea capitis in Harare, Zimbabwe and a trial of miconazole cream versus Whitfield's ointment in its treatment. Clin Exp Dermatol 1986; 11: 371–377
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kane, J, Leavitt, E, Summerbell, RC, et al. An outbreak of Trichophyton tonsurans dermatophytosis in a chronic care institution for the elderly. Eur J Epidemiol 1988; 4: 144–149
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stiller, MJ, Klein, WP, Dorman, RI, et al. Tinea corporis gladiatorum: an epidemic of Trichophyton tonsurans in student wrestlers. J Amer Acad Dermatol 1992; 27: 632–633
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar