[Clinico-epidemiological findings in tinea capitis in adults]

Clinical and epidemiological data on 15 subjects with Tinea capitis are reported. The patients, aged between 19 and 74, were observed from 1.1.1980 to 30.6.1990; 14 of them were females. The evidence of different clinical pictures is stressed. Microsporum canis was isolated in 7 cases, Trichophyton violaceum in 6 cases, and Trichophyton schoenleinii in 2 cases.