Table 3.
Prevalence of dermatophyte species (%) from three different surveys during the last 50 years in Lausanne.
| 1967–1970 Gregoriu and Brot, 1972 [19] n = 584 |
1990–2000 Monod et al. 2001 [17] n = 4193 |
2001–2018 This Study n = 10,958 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropophilic species | |||
| T. rubrum | 35.1 | 62 | 60.07 |
| T. interdigitale | 30.9 1 | 15.6 | 20.14 |
| T. tonsurans | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1.12 |
| T. violaceum | 0.2 | 1.7 | 2.29 |
| T. soudanense | 0.4 | 1.6 | 1.85 |
| T. schoenleini | 0.5 | ||
| E. floccosum | 17 | 1 | 0.36 |
| M. audouinii | 0.4 | 2.3 | 1.68 |
| M. ferrugineum | 0.4 | ||
| Zoophilic species | |||
| T. verrucosum | 10.2 | 1.3 | 1.03 |
| T. mentagrophytes | 30.9 1 | 9.9 | 5.38 |
| T. benhamiae | 1.27 | ||
| T. quinckeanum | 0.2 | ||
| T. equinum | |||
| T. erinacei | |||
| M. canis | 2.4 | 5 | 3.51 |
| Geophilic species | |||
| N. gypsea | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.52 |
| N. persicolor | 0.2 | 0 | 0.05 |
1 T. interdigitale and T. mentagrophytes were not differentiated.