caa a22 4500 465769276 CHVBK 20180323111924.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00150426 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00150426 Incidence of occult athlete's foot in swimmers [Elektronische Daten] [A. Attye, P. Auger, J. Joly] Athlete's foot is a dermatophytic infection frequently found in adults. This disease is, in some cases, asymptomatic. In order to evaluate the incidence of subelinical infection, we obtained 300 toe-web samples from the fourth interdigital space of 150 regular swimmers. More over, 66 specimens from the pool area were analysed. The method used was the carpet technique described by Mariat et al. (10). The fungal isolates were identified according to standard methods. A list of epidemiological data was completed for every swimmer. In our results, 22 swimmers had positive cultures (15%), 8 of these cases had no lesions (36%). They included 7 infections with Trichophyton mentagrophytes (87.5%) and one with T. rubrum (12.5%). We observed one case with a dual infection. Only one sample from the inanimate environment was positive. This study showed a significant incidence of occult athlete's foot in swimmers. To control this endemic problem, adequate preventive measures must be taken. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Athlete's foot nationallicence Swimmers nationallicence Trichophyton mentagrophytes nationallicence Trichophyton rubrum nationallicence Tinea pedis nationallicence Attye A. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. A, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut Auger P. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. A, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut Joly J. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. A, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut European Journal of Epidemiology Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/3(1990-09-01), 244-247 0393-2990 6:3<244 1990 6 10654 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00150426 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00150426 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Attye A. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. A, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Auger P. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. A, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Joly J. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ. A, H3C 3J7, Montreal, Quebec, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Epidemiology Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/3(1990-09-01), 244-247 0393-2990 6:3<244 1990 6 10654 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer