Trichophyton fungal keratitis

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 118-122

  Mohammad, Abdulkarim ^a   Al Rajhi, Abdulaziz ^a   Wagoner, Michael D ^a  

^a KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antifungal medications; Fungal keratitis; Keratolysis; Therapeutic keratoplasty; Trichophyton schoenleinii

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; FLUCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; NATAMYCIN; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATITIS; KERATOLYSIS; KERATOMYCOSIS; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; PANOPHTHALMITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCAR FORMATION; SCLERITIS; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON SCHOENLEINI;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CORNEAL ULCER; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 29744469748     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000164834.77291.51     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Ajello L. Natural history of the dermatophytes and related fungi. Mycopathol Mycol Appl. 1974;53:93-110.
2. Kolemen F. Dermatophytic flora of Ankara (Turkey). Dermatologica. 1981;162:260-264.
3. Sinski JT, Flouras 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 often isolated in the United States. Mycopathologica. 1984;85:97-120.
4. Khosravi AR, Aghamirian MR, Mahmoudi M. Dermatophytoses in Iran. Mycoses. 1994;37:43-48.
5. Nweze EI. Etiology of dermatophytosis amongst children in northeastern Nigeria. Med Mycol. 2001;39:181-184.
6. Korstanje MJ, Staats CG. Tinea capitis in Northwestern Europe 1963-1993: etiologic agents and their changing prevalence. Int J Dermatol. 1994;33:548-549.
7. Ali-Shtayeh MS, Arda HM, Abu-Ghdeib H. Epidemiological study of tinea capitis in school children in the Nablus area (West Bank). Mycosis. 1998;41:243-248.
8. Rubio-Calvo C, Gil-Tomas J, Rezusta-Lopez A, et al. The aetiological agents of tinea capitis in Zaragoza (Spain). Mycosis. 2001;44:55-58.
9. Romano C, De Aloe G, Calcaterra R, et al. Case reports. Tinea capitis due to Trichophyton soudanesase and Trichophyton schoenleinii. Mycoses. 2002;45:518-521.
10. Zaror L, Astorga J, Luer R. Favus due to Trichophyton schoenleinii. Rev Med Chil. 1976;104:288-290.
11. Cecchi R, Paoli S, Giomi A, et al. Favus due to Trichophyton schoenleinii in a patient with metastatic bronchial carcinoma. Br J Dermatol. 2003;148:1057.
12. Feuerman EJ, Alteras I, Bashan D, et al. Trichophytosis by double infection with Trichophyton schoenleinii and Trichophyton violaceum. Sabouraudia. 1978;16:9-13.
13. Botterel F, Romand S, Cornet M, et al. Dermatophyte pseudomycetoma of the scalp: case report and review. Br J Dermatol. 2001;145:151-153.
14. Rippon JW. Extracellular collagenase from Trichophyton schoenleinii. J Bacteriol. 1968;95:43-46.
15. Qin LM, Dekio S, Jidoi J. Some biochemical characteristics of a partially purified extracellular keratinase form of Trichophyton schoenleinii. Zentralbl Bakteriol. 1992;277:236-244.
16. Ibrahim-Granet O, Hernandez FH, Chevrier G, et al. Expression of PZ-peptidases by cultures of several pathogenic fungi. Purification and characterization of a collagenase from Trichophyton schoenleinii. J Med Vet Myocol. 1996;34:83-90.
17. Grin EI, Nadazin M. Experimental investigations into the therapeutic effect of griseofulvin in favus caused by Trichophyton. Bull WHO. 1965;33:183-192.
18. Drouhet E, Dupont B. Chronic mucocutaneous candidosis and other superficial and systemic mycosis successfully treated with ketoconazole. Rev Infect Dis. 1980;2:606-619.
19. Sanders N. Penetrating keratoplasty in treatment of fungal keratitis. Am J Ophthalmol. 1970;70:24-30.
20. Forster RK, Rebell G. Therapeutic surgery in failures of medical treatment for fungal keratitis. Br J Ophthalmol. 1975;59:366-371.
21. Chen W-L, Wu C-Y, Hu F-R, et al. Therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty for microbial keratitis in Taiwan from 1987 to 2001. Am J Ophthalmol. 2004;137:736-743.
22. O'Day DM, Moore TE Jr, Aronson SB, et al. Deep fungal corneal abscess. Combined corticosteroid therapy. Arch Ophthalmol. 1971;86:414-419.