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Dermatología Cosmética, Médica y Quirúrgica 2019; 17 (3)

Tinea Capitis and Foot Mycoses in High Risk Vulnerability Children and Adolescents

Santos LLE, Larraz RKK, Sigala AR, Mayorga RJA

Language: Spanish
References: 43
Page: 172-178
PDF size: 182.67 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Children in vulnerable situations, refers to the set of service deficiencies due to economic impoverishment and the bio-psychic- social deterioration of children predisposing this excluded sector to various health problems. Superficial mycoses are diseases of the skin and cutaneous annexes, caused by fungi that generally affect keratin tissues. The presence of diverse risk factors that share and affect various vulnerable groups are important in their manifestation. The objective of the present work is to diagnose the cases of tinea capitis and foot mycoses in abandoned children or living in an unfavorable social environment.
Material and methods: prospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study in abandoned children and adolescents. All children had some degree of poverty assessed by the Engel method. All of them underwent clinical exploration, mycological study and epidemiological testing. For the statistical analysis, descriptive statistics were used with measures of central tendency.
Results: sixty children/adolescents were included. Male gender predominated in 56.6%, with male/female ratio of 1.3:1. The age range was from two to 19 years with an average age of 12.9, with the age group of 11 to 15 years being the most observed with 23 children (38.2%). We identified one child (1.6%) with tinea capitis dry clinical form and five (8.3%) as asymptomatic carriers. For foot mycoses, three cases (5%) were found with onychomycosis (two with Candida krusei), one (1.6%) with pitted keratolysis and five (8.4%) asymptomatic in feet, isolating only yeast.
Conclusions: We found a frequency of tinea capitis of 9.9% and foot mycosis of 15% in children in vulnerable situations.


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