Correia Edmilson Emanuel Monteiro, Mota Marta, Veiga Luciano Vagner Ascenção de Melo, Fernandes Chantal, Gonçalves Teresa
CNC-UC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.
CIBB-Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, 3004-504 Coimbra, Portugal.
J Fungi (Basel). 2024 Oct 4;10(10):693. doi: 10.3390/jof10100693.
Dermatophytoses are infectious skin diseases of public health importance because of their transmissibility and high prevalence, especially among children. This is the first study aiming to estimate and report the burden of dermatophytoses on school-age children on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde, an African country that is an archipelago. A total of 249 students attending the afternoon shift of three elementary schools in the city of Achada Igreja were examined. Of these, 60 had suspected lesions of dermatophyte infection. However, from the samples collected from these 60 students, including hair, nails, and skin scrapings, only 18 dermatophyte isolates were obtained, corresponding to a point prevalence of 7.2%. Morphological species identification demonstrated three different species: , , and ; re-identification by sequencing the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2 regions of ribosomal DNA, and the 5.8S rDNA encoding gene (ITS-5.8S region), revealed as the most prevalent species, with only one case of . This is the first epidemiological data describing dermatophytoses and dermatophytes in Cape Verde among school-age children on one of the archipelago islands. It reinforces the need of using culture and accurate identification methodologies when gathering epidemiological data on dermatophytoses.
皮肤癣菌病是具有公共卫生重要性的传染性皮肤病，因其具有传染性且患病率高，尤其是在儿童中。这是第一项旨在评估和报告佛得角圣地亚哥岛上学龄儿童皮肤癣菌病负担的研究，佛得角是一个非洲国家，属于群岛国家。对阿查达伊格莱贾市三所小学下午班的249名学生进行了检查。其中，60名学生有皮肤癣菌感染的疑似病变。然而，从这60名学生采集的样本（包括头发、指甲和皮肤刮屑）中，仅获得了18株皮肤癣菌分离株，对应点患病率为7.2%。形态学物种鉴定显示有三种不同的物种： 、 和 ；通过对核糖体DNA的内部转录间隔区（ITS）1和2区域以及编码基因5.8S rDNA（ITS-5.8S区域）进行测序重新鉴定，结果显示 是最常见的物种，仅1例 。这是佛得角群岛其中一个岛屿上学龄儿童皮肤癣菌病和皮肤癣菌的首批流行病学数据。它强化了在收集皮肤癣菌病流行病学数据时使用培养和准确鉴定方法的必要性。
