Tinea capitis caused by microsporum audouninii: A report of two cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa

Rie Roselyne Yotsu; Kouamé Kouadio; Aubin Yao; Bamba Vagamon; Motoi Takenaka; Hiroyuki Murota; Koichi Makimura; Katsutaro Nishimoto

doi:10.3390/tropicalmed6010009

Tinea capitis caused by microsporum audouninii: A report of two cases from Côte D’Ivoire, West Africa

Rie Roselyne Yotsu
, Kouamé Kouadio
, Aubin Yao
, Bamba Vagamon
, Motoi Takenaka
, Hiroyuki Murota
, Koichi Makimura
, Katsutaro Nishimoto

Nagasaki University
National Center for Global Health and Medicine
Tulane University
Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire
Hope Commission International
Raoul Follereau Institute Côte d’Ivoire
Université Alassane Ouattara
Teikyo University
Ekisaikai Nagasaki Hospital

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We report here two cases of tinea capitis caused by Microsporum (M.) audouinii in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The patients were a three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl who presented with scaly patches on the scalp. The causative fungus was isolated using an adhesive tape-sampling method and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar plates. It was identified as M. audouinii both by its macroscopic and microscopic features, confirmed by DNA sequencing. These are the first documented cases of M. audouinii infections confirmed with DNA sequencing to be reported from Côte d’Ivoire. The practicality of the tape-sampling method makes it possible to carry out epidemiological surveys evaluating the distribution of these dermatophytic infections in remote, resource-limited settings.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Journal	Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed6010009
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Dermatophyte
Dermatophytosis
Developing country
Microsporum audouinii
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tape sampling
Tinea
Tinea capitis

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