[The epidemiology of trichophytosis, microsporosis and favus in the Armenian SSR].

Mycoses of the hairy part of the head have been effectively treated in the two last decades in Armenia. The number of trichophytosis patients has reduced from 32.7 per 100,000 in 1965 to 5.4 per 100,000 in 1987. The share of anthroponotic trichophytosis among all trichophytosis forms has reduced from 24.9 to 6.7 percent. Chronic trichophytosis became quite rare among adult patients. Favus has not been recorded in Armenia since 1976. Epidemic outbreaks of imported anthroponotic microsporosis were recorded in the 60s and 70s. The incidence of zooanthroponotic microsporosis was low and the cases were imported. In recent years cases of human infection from mongrel cats were recorded in Armenia.