MYCOLOGY PROFILE OF DERMATOPHYTE INFECTION IN RURAL AREA

Dermatophyte infection is one of the most common skin infections in the rural population. This because of the proximity of domestic animals, rural people working in fields and gardens exposing themselves to soil, compost, decaying organic material. Further rural people also habituated to take bath and swimming in village ponds where animals also are washed in the same ponds. All this may put the rural people at the high risk of Dermatophyte infections. This study is undertaken on the patients attending to Dermatology OPD in the teaching Hospital in rural area. These patients were clinically diagnosed as suffering from Dermatophyte infections and subjected laboratory diagnosis.