Tinea capitis, also known as scalp ringworm, is mainly a childhood infection caused
by dermatophytes. It has a high prevalence in the developing world and in northern
and western Europe; it is estimated to account for 1% of all superficial fungal infections.
Since the last decade, mycotic scalp infection has been subject to change, because
it has shown an increasing incidence and changing patterns in epidemiology in the
United States as well as in different European countries. To give an answer to this
development, different facts have to be considered, like immigration, travel activities,
change in the level of surveillance, screening methods, and attempts at diagnosis
and treatment. Our attempt in this field was to rule out the current epidemiologic
situation of tinea capitis in southeastern Austria as representative of a mid-European
localized country.
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