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Ringworm can also be acquired from other animals such as horses, pigs, ferrets, and cows. The fungus can also be spread by touching inanimate objects like personal care products, bed linen, combs, athletic gear, or hair brushes contaminated by an affected person. [3] Individuals at high risk of acquiring ringworm include those who: [citation ...
[3] [4] Ringworm can spread from other animals or between people. [3] Diagnosis is often based on the appearance and symptoms. [5] It may be confirmed by either culturing or looking at a skin scraping under a microscope. [5] Prevention is by keeping the skin dry, not walking barefoot in public, and not sharing personal items. [3]
The fungi tend to spread to areas of skin that are kept warm and moist, such as with insulation (clothes), body heat, and sweat. However, the spread of the infection is not limited to skin. Toe nails become infected with fungi in the same way as the rest of the foot, typically by being trapped with fungi in the warm, dark, moist inside of a shoe.
Scalp ringworm can affect anyone, but it’s most common in children and people with weak immune systems. Like other fungal infections, ringworm tends to spread more often during the warmer ...
The infection, which can take months to clear up even with treatment, has been increasingly diagnosed throughout Europe. Highly contagious form of sexually transmitted ringworm reported in the US ...
Because spread is thought to occur through direct contact with affected individuals, large outbreaks have been known to occur in schools and other places where children are in close quarters; however, indirect spread through contamination with infected objects may also be a factor in the spread of infection. In the US, tinea capitis is thought ...
Norovirus is primarily spread through contact with contaminated surfaces or direct contact with someone who has the virus. It can also be spread through food, particularly raw or undercooked ...
[6] [7] The fungi can easily spread to other areas of the body as well and to the host's home environs (socks, shoes, clothes, showers, bathtubs, counters, floors, carpets, etc.). They can be transmitted by direct contact, by contact with infested particles (of dead skin, nails, hair) shed by the host, and by contact with the fungi's spores ...