A Method of Evaluating the Clinical and Mycological Effect on Tinea Capitis.

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A method of evaluating the clinical and mycological effect on tinea capitis due to Microsporum canis was studied. All ten patients were infants, and they were treated with oral griseofulvin or itraconazole. After treatment the clinical findings were easily evaluated by crusts and scales on the lesions. Mycologically, hairs ware examined by the direct KOH method, the culture, and the hairbrush method. Periods of treatment were 8 to 14 weeks (average 11.7). Positive clinical findings were made between 2 to 14 weeks (average 8.3). The average of positive findings in the mycological examinations were 2.6 weeks by the direct examination of hairs, 1.9 weeks by the culture and 5.1 weeks by the hairbrush method.We can thus conclude that crusts and scales on the lesions were important in evaluating the clinical effect, and that the hairbrush method was most useful in the determining the mycological effect on tinea capitis.
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