Tinea corporis
A species of obligately anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Bacteroidetes. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, produces a black pigment, beta-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase positive, but xylose arabinose cellobiose, rhamnose, salicin, sucrose, lactose, indole, esculin hydrolysis, alpha-fucosidase, beta-glucosidase and glycine aminopeptidase negative. P. corporis is typically isolated from nonoral sites though a few strains have been isolated from dental root canal infections.
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Management: Local steroids were stopped immediately. All six cases were treated with local antifungal, oral antifungal with antihistamines and vitamin C. Only in one case (Case No.2) oral antibiotic Azithromycin 500 mg once a day for 5 day...
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