Laboratoire du centre hospitalier Mère et Enfant de Nouakchott, BP 40028, Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Service de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Faculté de Médecine, de Pharmacie et d'Odontologie, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, BP 5005, Dakar, Senegal.
J Mycol Med. 2021 Jun;31(2):101048. doi: 10.1016/j.mycmed.2020.101048. Epub 2020 Oct 13.
In Mauritania, only an investigation carried out 26 years ago allows to report epidemiological findings about tinea capitis in Nouakchott. The objective of this study was to reactualize the tinea capitis epidemiological, clinical and mycological profile in school children and to compare this profile in urban and rural area.
All subscribed students in targeted schools and present during the investigation were examined clinically before samples collection. Mycological diagnosis was made by direct examination and culture in Sabouraud Dextrose Agar with chloramphenicol and supplemented with cycloheximide. The results were considered positive when culture with the presence of dermatophytes was obtained.
Prevalence of tinea capitis among school children was 10.50% and it was more important in rural area (12.21%) than in urban area (9.52%). The age group ranged between 6 and 8 years was the most affected (13.58%). According to the gender, male (11.46%) were more affected than female (9.62%). Trichophytic tinea were predominant and Trichophyton soudanense was more isolated followed by Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton schoenleinii and Microsporum audouinii.
在毛里塔尼亚，仅有 26 年前进行的一项调查可以报告关于努瓦克肖特头癣的流行病学发现。本研究的目的是更新在学童中头癣的流行病学、临床和真菌学特征，并比较城乡地区的特征。
所有在目标学校注册并在调查期间在场的学生都在采集样本前进行了临床检查。直接检查和沙堡琼脂培养物加氯霉素和环丝氨酸进行真菌学诊断。当获得存在皮肤癣菌的培养物时，结果被认为是阳性。
学童头癣的患病率为 10.50%，农村地区（12.21%）高于城市地区（9.52%）。年龄组在 6 至 8 岁之间的受影响最大（13.58%）。根据性别，男性（11.46%）比女性（9.62%）受影响更大。发癣菌性头癣更为常见，苏丹毛癣菌分离率最高，其次是红色毛癣菌、须癣毛癣菌和疣状毛癣菌。
