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A sexually transmitted ringworm caused by a rare fungus has been reported for the first time in the United States. The case report, published Wednesday in JAMA Dermatology by doctors at NYU ...
Health care officials are sounding the alarm after a man became the first person in the U.S. to contract a rare form of highly contagious, sexually transmitted ringworm.
Trichophyton mentagrophytes is a fungus that causes ringworm in people and in cats, dogs and other pets.. A subtype of this fungus can be acquired through sexual contact, according to the CDC. In ...
Dermatophytosis, also known as tinea and ringworm, is a fungal infection of the skin [2] (a dermatomycosis), that may affect skin, hair, and nails. [1] Typically it results in a red, itchy, scaly, circular rash. [ 1 ]
Trichophyton mentagrophytes is one of three common fungi which cause ringworm in companion animals and frequently isolated from dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and other rodents. [2] [3] [4] It is the most common or one of the most common fungi that cause zoonotic skin disease (i.e., transmission of mycotic skin disease from species to species ...
sexually transmitted infection – only trophozoite form (no cysts) Sleeping sickness: Trypanosoma brucei: brain and blood microscopic examination of chancre fluid, lymph node aspirates, blood, bone marrow 50,000 to 70,000 people; only found in Africa tsetse fly, day-biting fly of the genus Glossina: Chagas disease: Trypanosoma cruzi
After some tests, health experts determined that the New York man had an infection caused by the species Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMVII) —a sexually transmitted form of ringworm ...
Tinea cruris (TC), also known as jock itch, is a common type of contagious, superficial fungal infection of the groin and buttocks region, which occurs predominantly but not exclusively in men and in hot-humid climates.