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For the education, sharing the information and research for medical mycology, the Korean Society for Medical Mycology (KSMM) was established in March 9, 1994. Since 1994, meetings of the KSMM...
Dermatophytes usually do not invade beyond the epidermis. However mechanical breakage of the skin resulting from scratching or trauma and immunocompromised state may allow penetration of the fungi into reticular...
Although tinea faciei has its own characteristic clinical features, its clinical features may be similar to contact dermatitis, discoid lupus erythematosus, polymorphous light eruption, and seborrheic dermatitis. So we should...
Kerion celsi is severe inflammatory type of tinea capitis and presents as an inflammatory, boggy mass studded with broken hairs. Mostly, it is caused by zoophilic or geophilic dermatophytes. Recently...
BACKGROUND: Trichophytosis gladiatorum is dermatophytosis transmitted by a physical contact between wrestlers. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the current status of the illness in Korean amateur wreatlers. METHOD: The epidemiological, clinical and...
BACKGROUND: Arthroderma (A.) benhamiae, one of three telemorphs of Trichophyton (T.) mentagrophytes, has not been isolated until recently in Korea, but in Japan the first report on it was made...