Fungal Infections
摘要
This chapter is on a selection of common fungal infections of the human skin. This selection has conditions that are found in every region of the world. It is, therefore, imperative for the general practitioner and any other clinician who reads this chapter to have a good grasp of its presentation in skin of color; the emphasis in this chapter is the Black skin as all the cases are on this type of skin. Dermatology is a highly specialized field of practice in medicine, yet dermatologists are not as many as they ought to be; this situation is worse in developing countries and in countries in tropical Africa where Black skin is the prevalent skin type. People with Black skin have dispersed to every region of the world—including where dermatologists in some of the countries were not trained in skin of color nor in the more specific Black skin. This chapter and other chapters aim at providing images of satisfactory sizes to give the reader a good idea of the condition described prior to their encountering a patient with the condition when the patient has Black skin. It is noteworthy that the pathology and etiological agents are not different from other skin types, and therefore, the emphasis is not a repetition of what is already in the existing literature but providing a clear and concise representation of these conditions in Black skin. The conditions are dandruff, pityriasis versicolor, tinea capitis, tinea corporis co-presenting with dyschromia and stretch marks in a patient, tinea cruris, and tinea pedis interdigitalis.