Tinea capitis: estudo de portadores assintomáticos e doentes adolescentes, adultos e idosos coabitantes com crianças com a infecção

A tinea capitis é uma infecção dermatofítica freqüente na criança; há relatos isolados, no Brasil, em adolescentes e adultos. A detecção do estado de portador assintomático tem importância primordial no controle desta infecção. No período de fevereiro de 1998 a fevereiro de 1999, no Ambulatório de Dermatologia do IPPMG (UFRJ), foi investigada a freqüência de portadores assintomáticos e doentes entre 79 coabitantes (adolescentes, adultos e idosos) com 56 crianças (0-12 anos) apresentando tinea capitis. Dos 79 coabitantes, uma mulher e um homem adultos (2,5%) eram portadores assintomáticos, sendo isolados Trichophyton tonsurans e Microsporum canis respectivamente. Uma adolescente e duas adultas (3,8%) apresentaram tinea capitis com isolamento de Trichophyton tonsurans. O estudo demonstrou que adolescentes e adultos coabitantes domiciliares com crianças com tinea capitis podem ser doentes ou portadores assintomáticos.Tinea capitis is a dermatophyte infection that occurs mainly in childhood; there are few reports, in Brazil, in adolescents and adults. The detection of asymptomatic carriers is of great importance in the disease control. From February 1998 to February 1999, a study was performed at the outpatient Dermatologic Unit of Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) to verify the frequency of asymptomatic carriers and tinea capitis between 79 adolescents, adults and elderly who lived in the same household of 56 children (0-12 years) with tinea capitis. Of these, one female and one male adults (2.5%) were asymptomatic carriers and the cultures revealed Trichophyton tonsurans and Microsporum canis respectively. One female adolescent and two female adults (3.8%) had tinea capitis and all cultures revealed Trichophyton tonsurans. The study has shown that adolescents and adults who live in the same household of children with tinea capitis may be sick or asymptomatic carriers

Tinea capitis: study of asymptomatic carriers and sick adolescents, adults and elderly who live with children with the disease

Tinea capitis is a dermatophyte infection that occurs mainly in childhood; there are few reports, in Brazil, in adolescents and adults. The detection of asymptomatic carriers is of great importance in the disease control. From February 1998 to February 1999, a study was performed at the outpatient Dermatologic Unit of Instituto de Puericultura e Pediatria Martagão Gesteira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) to verify the frequency of asymptomatic carriers and tinea capitis between 79 adolescents, adults and elderly who lived in the same household of 56 children (0-12 years) with tinea capitis. Of these, one female and one male adults (2.5%) were asymptomatic carriers and the cultures revealed Trichophyton tonsurans and Microsporum canis respectively. One female adolescent and two female adults (3.8%) had tinea capitis and all cultures revealed Trichophyton tonsurans. The study has shown that adolescents and adults who live in the same household of children with tinea capitis may be sick or asymptomatic carriers