Badillet G
Laboratoire Central de Mycologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris.
Ann Biol Clin (Paris). 1988;46(1):37-43.
An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital. Immigrants represent an important part of the people who came to consult us: 28 per cent in 1983. The two most important immigrant peoples show different features: Black African people, who were mass contaminated by tinea agents (Trichophyton soudanense and Microsporum langeronii), were not much contaminated by epidermophytic agents (Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton interdigitale, Epidermophyton floccosum). Conversely, in people from the Maghreb, if tinea (Trichophyton violaceum) were not numerous, epidermophyties were found in the same proportion than in native people. The transmission of various dermatophytes from one population to another seems quite easy to detect for tinea agents: Trichophyton soudanense, Microsporum langeronii and Trichophyton violaceum can contaminate native people. Microsporum canis often contaminates the children from the Maghreb, and rarely Black African children. But the transmission of epidermophytes is much more difficult to study, due to a lack of documents in the African countries involved. The Scytalidium and Hendersonula pathology recently discovered in France is almost exclusively restricted to Black immigrants from the West Indies and Africa.
1983年至1984年期间，圣路易医院真菌学实验室开展了一项皮肤癣菌的流行病学研究。移民是前来就诊人群的重要组成部分：1983年占28%。两个最重要的移民群体表现出不同特征：非洲黑人受癣菌（苏丹毛癣菌和兰氏小孢子菌）大量感染，但受表皮癣菌（红色毛癣菌、指间毛癣菌、絮状表皮癣菌）感染不多。相反，在马格里布地区的人群中，癣（紫色毛癣菌）虽不多见，但表皮癣菌的检出比例与本地人相同。各种皮肤癣菌在不同人群之间的传播，对于癣菌来说似乎很容易察觉：苏丹毛癣菌、兰氏小孢子菌和紫色毛癣菌可感染本地人。犬小孢子菌常感染马格里布地区的儿童，而很少感染非洲黑人儿童。但由于相关非洲国家缺乏资料，表皮癣菌的传播情况更难研究。法国最近发现的帚霉属和亨德逊霉属病变几乎只限于来自西印度群岛和非洲的黑人移民。
