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Objective Presentation of the preliminary results from the foot screening project, 'Achilles', conducted in spring of 1997 and 1998 in several European countries. At the EADV congress, only the preliminary results of the study, i.e. patients screened by dermatologists, were presented.Subject Foot diseases, especially fungal infections (tinea pedis and onychomycosis).Methods A questionnaire and a mycological...
Objective A description of the background, objectives and design of the Achilles foot screening project.Subject Foot diseases, especially tinea pedis and onychomycosis.Methods Literature review and description of the Achilles set-up.Results The prevalence of tinea pedis and onychomycosis has sharply increased since 1950. Tinea pedis is one of the most common mycological diseases and onychomycosis...
Objective To compare the antifungal activity of itraconazole and terbinafine in vitro and to relate them to their experimental in vivo activity and to their efficacy in patients with superficial fungal infections (tinea pedis and onychomycosis).Results Fungal infections such as onychomycosis and tinea pedis are often treated with oral antifungals. With the introduction of newer agents such as terbinafine...
Two cases of tinea pedis due to Scytalidium hyalinum, the first to be described in Italy, are reported. The patients were a 41-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man who had spent periods in the Caribbean. The clinical manifestations were indistinguishable from those caused by dermatophytes. In the woman they were striking with `moccasin foot' type lesions, whereas in the man they were less evident,...
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