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Tinea Capitis Due to Microsporum vanbreuseghemii: Report of Two Cases

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Two cases of dermatophytosis caused by Microsporum vanbreuseghemii are reported. A 7-year-old boy and his brother were examined for tinea capitis. Hair samples and skin scrapings were collected from each patient to microscopy and culture. Direct microscopic examination of the hairs using lactophenol revealed an ectothrix invasion. Cultures inoculated with portions of clinical material yielded M. vanbreuseghemii after 2 weeks. The identification of the fungi were based on colony morphology on mycobiotic agar, microscopic characteristic on slide cultures, biochemical reactions and hair perforation tests.

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The authors would like to thank the personnel of Medical Mycology & Parasitology Laboratory of Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, for their help, Dr.Manouchehr Askari for his cooperation in the identification of fungi and reviewers for review of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    Ali Naseri & Abdolmajid Fata

  2. Mycology Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Reza Khosravi

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Naseri, A., Fata, A. & Khosravi, A.R. Tinea Capitis Due to Microsporum vanbreuseghemii: Report of Two Cases. Mycopathologia 174, 77–80 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-012-9521-3

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