Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2024)

Potential Sexual Transmission of Antifungal-Resistant Trichophyton indotineae

  • Stephanie Spivack,
  • Jeremy A.W. Gold,
  • Shawn R. Lockhart,
  • Priyanka Anand,
  • Laura A.S. Quilter,
  • Dallas J. Smith,
  • Briana Bowen,
  • Jane M. Gould,
  • Ahmed Eltokhy,
  • Ahmed Gamal,
  • Mauricio Retuerto,
  • Thomas S. McCormick,
  • Mahmoud A. Ghannoum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3004.240115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 4
pp. 807 – 809

Abstract

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We describe a case of tinea genitalis in an immunocompetent woman in Pennsylvania, USA. Infection was caused by Trichophyton indotineae potentially acquired through sexual contact. The fungus was resistant to terbinafine (first-line antifungal) but improved with itraconazole. Clinicians should be aware of T. indotineae as a potential cause of antifungal-resistant genital lesions.

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