TINEA CAPITIS

Abstract
Combined infections with fungi of various types are rarely reported. Muskatblit1in 1941 reviewed 36 cases in the literature and put on record 6 cases of his own, the patients having been observed during a period of ten years. He2added another case to this list in 1946. Lewis and Hopper3in 1943 presented the histories and critical evaluation of 23 cases of combined, consecutive and concurrent fungous infections4among 1,200 persons suspected of having a fungous disease. Sabouraud5observed an undetermined number of combined infections of the scalp with Trichophyton crateriforme and a microsporum. With the exception of Sabouraud's observations, the aforementioned 66 cases include involvement of one or several sites of the human skin and its appendages with two or more different fungi. The scalp was the site of a combined infection in only 19 of these 66 cases (table 1). Eight different fungous associations