Study on the frequency of Pityriasis versicolor in people who work in “tortillerias” and dry cleaners at Puebla city

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  • Amparo Ramírez Cueto Laboratorio de Micología Médica, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Puebla, Puebla, México
  • Miguel Águila Campos Laboratorio de Micología Médica, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Puebla, Puebla, México

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https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.1983.2.573

Abstract

The prescnce of pityriasis versicolor in Puebla city is discussed. Samples of 80
tortíUen'as and 32 dry cleancrs were taken and a total of 178 raen and women were
interviewed, of these 19 showed the characteristic harms of the illness, Malassezia
fúrfur was confirmed in 5 of these cases. More samples of the lesions were taken
from the positivc cases to havc them cultured. The total amount of positive cases
is 2.8°jb in relation to the total amount of the samples taken.

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Ramírez Cueto, A., & Águila Campos, M. (2016). Study on the frequency of Pityriasis versicolor in people who work in “tortillerias” and dry cleaners at Puebla city. Scientia Fungorum, 2(18), 45–50. https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.1983.2.573

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