In Ramadi City, Several Agricultural And Phenotypic Techniques For Patients With Dermatophytes Are Being Investigated
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This study was conducted to investigate the fungi that cause dermatophytes in humans, and 50 samples of people suspected of having dermatitis fungi were collected from Ramadi Teaching Hospital patients from the beginning of August to the end of November, and these models were taken from the skin, hair, and nails. Where samples were subjected to direct examination using a moisturizing swab with a 10% KOH solution at the same time that the samples were grown on the sabauroud dextrose agar medium to investigate the causative fungi for dermatophytes in humans, direct examination revealed positive results in 8 samples (16% of the total of 50 samples), while the laboratory cultured method revealed positive results in 22 samples (44% ).
The results of the tests revealed the kind of infection, Tinea capitis, its rate, and gender connection. Females are infected at a rate of 46.7 % , while men are infected at a rate of 36.7 percent, with T. unguium inflicting 10 % of females and 6.7% of males.
Dermatophyte incidence varied depending on the region of residence where the majority of the infections were dermatophyte is caused by people living in rural areas due to a health condition deterioration caused by a lack of education and health knowledge, reduced health care, and the level of economic aid with dermatophyte occurrence.
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