Tinea corporis

Tinea corporis ( ringworm Syn ) is called dermatophytosis of the trunk and extremities (excluding feet, hands and groin ). In principle, all human pathogenic dermatophytes as a pathogen into consideration. In children, mainly zoophilic dermatophytes are triggers, arrive with gardeners increasingly also geophile pathogens. There are two special forms of tinea corporis: When the wrestlers tinea corporis gladiatorum ( Matt Brand, " Ringer mushroom" ), in tropical areas tinea imbricata. Tinea faciei concerns the hairless portions of the face, which essentially behaves just like the tinea corporis.

The fungal disease usually shows up as rand emphasized redness with scaling and itching of hairless skin on the edge pustules may occur. This applies in particular that zoophilic pathogens can cause marked inflammation that is it also tackled promptly by the immune system; anthropophilic agents, however, are responsible for chronic lesions. Common pathogens are at the zoophilic pathogens especially M. canis, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton verrucosum, Trichophyton rubrum in the anthropophilic and Epidermophyton floccosum, Microsporum gypseum in geophilic.

The treatment is usually done locally with antifungal agents.

Tinea corporis on the arm

Tinea faciei