A 'ring in ring' skin infection in a returning traveller

BJ Visser; S van den Broucke

doi:10.1093/jtm/taae061

A 'ring in ring' skin infection in a returning traveller

Tropical Infectious Diseases

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Abstract

A 40-year-old woman developed an itchy, expanding cutaneous lesion with two erythematous rings after visiting Senegal. Fungal culture revealed Microsporum audouinii, a fungus causing tinea corporis or capitis commonly in Africa but increasingly reported in outbreaks in Europe.

Original language	English
Article number	taae061
Journal	Journal of Travel Medicine
Volume	31
Issue number	4
Number of pages	2
ISSN	1195-1982
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taae061
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

Microsporum audouinii
Tinea corporis
Dermatophyte infection
Erythema migrans
Fungal infection
Imported case
Travel-acquired infection

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