What is Tinea Circinata? Doctors are warning about this highly contagious treatment-resistant skin disease that is currently spreading.
According to doctors,the world is not prepared” To this ultra-contagious skin disease that is spreading. In the United States, two cases of drug-resistant tinea have been confirmed by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in two patients, ages 28 and 47. They had injuries to their necks, buttocks, thighs and abdomen, and relatives suffered from the same symptoms.
Skin diseases can ruin life, in particular acne, which many stars (and even Miss France) suffer from, or dartre, also called “achromic eczema”. But this new fungal skin infection is spreading across countries according to David Denning, professor of infectious diseases in global health at the University of Manchester. In The Mirrorwe also learn that tinea is easily transmitted in schools, homes and through intimate contact.
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A skin disease that could spread around the world
This skin disease is a new fungus resistant to terbinafine, a new species called “Trichophyton indotineae”. It was first identified in India, then it has been observed in Canada, Germany and now in the United States. The 28-year-old woman noticed her rashes in the summer of 2021 and consulted in December. After the birth of her baby, she had an antifungal treatment in January 2022 but it made no difference. The rash cleared up after four weeks of itraconazole antifungal. She had not travelled.
The 47-year-old woman, she, noticed his eruptions during a stay in Bangladesh but no cream could overcome it when he returned to the United States. Dermatologists ended up reducing the rash by 80% with two four-week treatments. Her husband and son also have extensive, scaly ring-shaped rashes on their buttocks and thighs.
For two decades, these infections were successfully treated with oral terbinafine.. Scientists believe that the frequent use in India of cream and ointment with topical terbinafine not completely covering the infected area or penetrating the skin deeply could explain the emergence of this new infection, as it allows variants to escape. resistant. For David Denning, the world is not ready for an epidemic of skin infections due to higher temperatures. To determine whether it is this new fungus or the usual species, it is necessary to do specialized tests in a mycology laboratory and there would not be enough according to him.