Abstract

TORRES, Joel; MARTIEZ, Milagros; ARIAS, Isabel  and  ROMERO C, Hilda. Superficial mycoses in the Yanomami population of the Mawaca Region, Amazon State. Rev. Soc. Ven. Microbiol. [online]. 2014, vol.34, n.2, pp.70-74. ISSN 1315-2556.

The purpose of this study was to determine the presence of superficial mycoses (SM) in the Yanomami ethnicity at Mawaca, Amazon State. Of 176 persons examined, 64 showed suspicious SM lesions, from which we obtained 65 samples: 10 pytiriasis versicolor (PV) and 55 dermatophytosis. The mycological study consisted in carrying out direct examination, culture in mycological agar, in vitro hair perforation, and urease and bromocresol purple-milk solids glucose agar (BCP-MS-G Agar) tests. Of the 10 PV suspicious lesions, 3 were positive, two in children under 10 years old and one in an adult, all with face lesions. In 36 scrapings we saw septate hyaline hyphae. Fifty-two dermatophyte suspicious colonies were isolated and of these, one was compatible with the Microsporum gypseum Complex, from a lesion on the knee of an adult. The other 51 belonged to the Trichophyton rubrum Complex, of which nine were in vitro hair perforations, 24 hydrolized urea, and none alkalinized the BCP-MS-G agar medium; the clinical form was tinea corporis and the lesions were mainly localized at the back and ears in children and adults respectively. These results reveal the existence of SM in the Yanomami population, serving as basis for future epidemiological studies.

Keywords : Yanomami; pytiriasis versicolor; dermatophytosis; superficial mycoses; Venezuela; Amazon State.

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