Table 1.
Prevalence of different fungi in dermatological samples analyzed in this study.
| Fungi Identified by Cultures | Scalp | Face | Perineum | Hand | Body | Foot | Nail | Total | Percent 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Tinea Capitis) 1 | (Tinea Faciae) 1 | (Tinea Cruris) 1 | (Tinea Manum) 1 | (Tinea Corporis) 1 | (Tinea Pedis) 1 | (Tinea Unguium) 1 | |||
| Dermatophytes | |||||||||
| Anthropophilic species | |||||||||
| T. rubrum | 13 | 38 | 338 | 100 | 259 | 1546 | 4413 | 6707 | 61.21 |
| T. interdigitale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 862 | 1345 | 2207 | 20.14 |
| T. violaceum | 213 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 244 | 2.22 |
| T. soudanense | 134 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 5 | 21 | 197 | 1.8 |
| T. tonsurans | 71 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 122 | 1.11 |
| E. floccosum | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 40 | 0.37 |
| M. audouinii | 144 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 169 | 1.54 |
| Zoophilic species | |||||||||
| T. mentagrophytes | 86 | 119 | 67 | 39 | 279 | 0 | 0 | 590 | 5.38 |
| T. benhamiae | 19 | 39 | 0 | 11 | 68 | 2 | 0 | 139 | 1.27 |
| T. verrucosum | 27 | 24 | 1 | 6 | 49 | 4 | 2 | 113 | 1.03 |
| T. erinacei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.01 |
| M. canis | 116 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 217 | 2 | 1 | 369 | 3.37 |
| N. persicolor | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.05 |
| Geophilic species | |||||||||
| N. gypsea | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 55 | 0.5 |
| Total dermatophyte cutures | 830 | 283 | 427 | 169 | 1006 | 2439 | 5803 | 10,958 | 14.1 |
| Other fungi without dermatophytes | |||||||||
| Yeasts | 54 | 693 | 1421 | 212 | 205 | 603 | 3298 | 6486 | 8.35 |
| Fusarium spp./Acremonium spp. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 70 | 1078 | 1159 | 1.49 |
| Other moulds | 219 | 112 | 73 | 255 | 359 | 931 | 6996 | 8945 | 11.51 |
| Total positive fungal cultures | 1105 | 1090 | 1923 | 638 | 1573 | 4043 | 17,175 | 27,547 | 35.45 |
| Negative fungal cultures | 3149 | 1734 | 4424 | 1997 | 5908 | 6801 | 26,155 | 50,168 | 64.55 |
| Total number of samples | 4254 | 2822 | 4072 | 2634 | 7472 | 10,844 | 49,133 | 77,716 | 100 |
1 Dermatophyte infections. 2 Percentages in relation to the number of dermatophytes (n = 10,958) are in straight line characters. Percentages in relation to the total number of samples analyzed (n = 77,716) are in italics.