Tinea versicolor and body lotions
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https://doi.org/10.2340/0001555560439440Abstract
A woman complained she had caught her "white spots" from an American sun lotion. The daughter also had them. The mother's spots showed malassezia furfur. The daughter, by a curious coincidence, had developed vitiligo at the same time. As a comfort it was agreed that the sun lotion should be examined for fungal contamination. Scrapings from lesions of patients with tinea versicolor show a typical appearance of malassezia furfur. Roberts (9) cultured specimens from 27 patients and isolated Pitysporum orbiculare in 25.Downloads
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1980-09-09
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Roed-Petersen, J. (1980). Tinea versicolor and body lotions. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 60(5), 439–440. https://doi.org/10.2340/0001555560439440
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