Due to the increasing prevalence of life-threatening bacterial, fungal and viral infections and
the ability of these human pathogens to develop resistance to current treatment strategies …

Dermatophytoses or tinea refers to superficial fungal infection of keratinized tissues.
Although generally considered easy to treat, recalcitrant infections, presenting as extensive …

In the last few years, infections caused by dermatophytes along with a concomitant increase
in the number of difficult to treat cases have increasingly been recognised, indicating that …

Background An alarming increase in recalcitrant dermatophytosis has been witnessed in
India over the past decade. Drug resistance may play a major role in this scenario …

The disease burden of chronic‐relapsing and therapy‐refractory superficial dermatophytosis
dramatically increased in India within the past 5‐6 years. In order to evaluate the prevalence …

Superficial fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails are the fourth most common cause of
human disease affecting 20% to 25% of the world's population [1]. Dermatophytosis is a …

Dermatophytosis has attained unprecedented dimensions in recent years in India. Its clinical
presentation is now multifarious, often with atypical morphology, severe forms and unusually …

In recent years, cases involving terbinafine-resistant Trichophyton isolates have been
reported increasingly, particularly in India. We present 14 cases of terbinafine treatment …

Numerous reports describe the emergence of resistance in dermatophytes, especially in T.
rubrum and T. mentagrophytes/indotineae strains. We here present a review of the current …

Background Dermatophytosis is a world‐wide distributed common infection. Antifungal drug
resistance in dermatophytosis used to be rare, but unfortunately the current Indian epidemic …