Table 1.
Clinical and demographic findings and mycological details of infection in 17 cases of onychomycosis caused by Fusarium species.
| Number | Sex/age (years) |
Location | Region of origin | Attack type | Duration (years) |
Immune status | DE | Species |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | F/43 | Big toenail | Dakar | Distal subungual | 15 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (2) | F/49 | Fingernails | Dakar | Onycholysis | 2 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (3) | F/47 | Toenails | Dakar | Onycholysis | 1 | IC | Hyp | FOC |
| (4) | M/36 | Fingernails | Dakar | Distal subungual | 7 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (5) | F/56 | Toenails | Dakar | Secondary to ITP | NS | IC | Hyp | FOC |
| (6) | F/64 | Toenails | Dakar | Distal subungual | 8 | Diabetic | Mic | FOC |
| (7) | F/30 | Fingernails | Dakar | Distal subungual | 3 | IC | Hyp | FFC |
| (8) | M/43 | Big toenail | Dakar | Distal subungual | 7 | IC | Hyp | FFC |
| (9) | F/33 | Toenails | Dakar | Secondary to ITP | 1,5 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (10) | M/55 | Toenails | St. Louis | Secondary to ITP | 2 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (11) | M/36 | Fingernails | Dakar | Proximal paronychia | 9 | IC | Hyp | FFC |
| (12) | F/39 | Toenails | Dakar | Secondary to ITP | 1,8 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (13) | M/59 | Toenails | Dakar | Secondary to ITP | 5 | IC | Hyp | FSC |
| (14) | F/44 | Fingernails | Thiès | Distal subungual | 10 | IC | Hyp | FOC |
| (15) | M/63 | Toenails | Dakar | Secondary to ITP | 5 | IC | Hyp | FSC + C. albicans |
| (16) | F/26 | Toenails | Dakar | Secondary to ITP | 2 | IC | Hyp | FFC + C. albicans |
| (17) | F/26 | Big toenail | Dakar | Distal subungual | 2 | IC | Hyp | FFC |
ITP: interdigital tinea pedis; NS: not specified; IC: immunocompetent; DE: direct examination; Hyp: hyphae; Mic: microconidia; FSC: Fusarium solani complex; FOC: Fusarium oxysporum complex; FFC: Fusarium fujikuroi complex.