Nippon Ishinkin Gakkai Zasshi
Online ISSN : 1882-0476
Print ISSN : 0916-4804
ISSN-L : 0916-4804
Two Cases of Tinea Corporis by Infection from a Rabbit with Arthroderma benhamiae
Masako KawasakiMiki AsoTadanori InoueTokuya OhsawaSakae IshiokaTakashi MochizukiHiroshi Ishizaki
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2000 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 263-267

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The first cases of tinea corporis with Arthroderma benhamiae in Japan are reported. A 7-year-old girl and a 30-year-old mother in Shimane prefecture suffered from dermatophyte infections on the neck, shoulder, arms and leg. Three isolates from the two patients and a rabbit by which they supposedly were infected, were identified as Trichophyton mentagrophytes. On the bases of mating tests using the tester strains of both the African race and the Americano-European race of A. benhamiae, they were identified as A. benhamiae African race mating type (-). Our results are the first to indicate that both races of A. benhamiae exist in Japan.

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