The Minnesota Department of Health has issued a health advisory after more than 30 confirmed or suspected cases of Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, or TMVII, have been reported in the ...

Fungal infections affecting the skin, hair and nails remain a major global health concern, with dermatophytes representing a highly prevalent group of pathogens. These organisms invade keratinised ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The fungal skin infection is caused by T. mentagrophytes type VII, a dermatophyte. The infection is found mostly ...

Cats, like all other domesticated animals, are susceptible to the unpleasant fungal infection of the skin, hair and nails known as ringworm. However, there are common misconceptions about the ...

Dermatophyte infections, the most common kind of fungal infection in the skin, hair, or nails, affect an estimated 25 percent of the world's population and have accounted for 51 million outpatient ...

As the number of drug-resistant and other troublesome tinea infections grows, perhaps the only certainty is that these are not the tinea subtypes that most providers studied in medical school. As ...

Reviewed by: Roger S. Ho, MD, MS, MPH, FAAD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY Dermatophytoses are common fungal infections of the skin, hair, ...