CASE REPORT ON ORAL CORTICOSTERIODS [DEFLAZACORT] INDUCED MALASSEZIA FOLLICULITIS
Abstract
Malassezia folliculitis is most commonly underdiagnosed by acne and malassezia folliculitis is caused by yeast of Malassezia, which is the cause of tinea versicolor.Malassezia folliculitis [MF] is also called pityrosporum folliculitis. It is a condition that shows breakouts on your skin, people who are mostly oily. People mostly think that it as a normal acne and try to treat them which is been misdiagnosed. It is mostly treated by the anti-fungals like itraconazole, fluconazole ,ketoconazole. It can be resolved within few weeks. Drug must be maintained; otherwise it may lead to reoccurrence of the infection.
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Malassezia folliculitis, tinea versicolor, pityrosporoum folliculities, ketoconazole
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2. Weary PE, Russell CM, Butler HK, et al. Acneform eruption resulting from antibiotic administration. Arch Dermatol. 1969;100:179–183.
3. Ayers K, Sweeney SM, Wiss K. Pityrosporum folliculitis: diagnosis and management in six female adolescents with acne vulgaris. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159:64–67.
4. Gaitanis G, Velegraki A, Mayser P, et al. Skin diseases associated with Malassezia yeasts: facts and controversies. Clin Dermatol. 2013;31:455–463.
5. Potter BS, Burgoon CF, Johnson WC. Pityrosporum folliculitis. Report of seven cases and review of the Pityrosporum organism. Arch Dermatol. 1973;107:388–391.
6. Yu HJ, Lee SK, Son SJ, et al. Steroid acne vs Pityrosporum folliculitis: the incidence of Pityrosporum ovale and the effect of antifungal drugs in steroid acne. Int J Dermatol. 1998;37:772–777.
7. Abdel-Razek M, Fadaly G, Abdel-Raheim M, et al. Pityrosporum [Malassezia] folliculitis in Saudi Arabia: diagnosis and therapeutic trials. Clin Exp Dermatol. 1995;20:406–409.
8. Erchiga VC, Florencio VD. Malassezia species in skin diseases. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2002;15:133–142.
9. Sunenshine PJ, Schwartz RA, Janninger CK. Tinea versicolor. Int J Dermatol. 1998;37:648–55.
10. Akaza N, Akamatsu H, Takeoka S, Sasaki Y, Mizutani H, Nakata S, et al. Malassezia globosa tends to grow actively in summer conditions more than other cutaneous Malassezia species. J Dermatol. 2012;39:613–6.
11. Dutta S, Bajaj AK, Basu S, Dikshit A. 2002. Pityriasis versicolor: Socioeconomic and clinico-mycologic study in India. Int J Dermatol. 2002;41:823–4.
12. Midgley G. The diversity of Pityrosporum [Malassezia] yeasts in vivo and in vitro. Mycopathologia. 1989;106:143–53.
13. Ljubojevic S, Skerley M, Lipozencic J, et al. The role of Malassezia furfur in dermatology. Clin Dermatol. 2002;20:179–182.
14. Poli F Differential diagnosis of facial acne on black skin. Int J Dermatol. 2012;51 [Sl]:24–26.
15. Durdu M, Guran M, Ilkit M. Epidemiological characteristics of Malassezia folliculitis and use of the May-Grunwald-Giemsa stain to diagnose the infection. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2013.
16. Parsad D, Saini R, Negi KS. Short-term treatment of Pityrosporurm folliculitis: a double blind placebo-controlled study. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 1998;11 [2]:188–190.
17. Shoeib MA, Gaber MA, Labeeb AZ, El-Kholy OA. Malassezia species isolated from lesional and non lesional skin in patients with pityriasis versicolor. Menoufia Med J [serial online] 2013;26:86–90.
18. Boekhout T, Dawson TL., Jr Skin diseases associated with Malassezia species. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2004;51:785–98.
19. Back O, Faergemann J, Hornqvist R. Pityrosporum folliculitis: A common disease of the young and middle-aged. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1985;12:56–61.
20. Archer-Dubon C, Icaza-Chivez ME, Orozco-Topete R, Reyes E, Baez-Martinez R, Ponce de Leon S. An epidemic outbreak of Malassezia folliculitis in three adult patients in an intensive care unit: A previously unrecognized nosocomial infection. Int J Dermatol. 1999;38:453–6.
21. Levy A, Feuilhade de Chauvin M, Dubertret L, Morel P, Flageul B. Malassezia folliculitis: characteristics and therapeutic response in 26 patients. Ann Dermatol Venereol. 2007;134:823–8.
22. Heymann WR, Wolf DJ. Malassezia [Pityrosporon] folliculitis occurring during pregnancy. Int J Dermatol. 1986;25:49–51.
23. Parlak AH, Boran C, Topcuoglu MA. Pityrosporum folliculitis during pregnancy: A possible cause of pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2005;52:528–9.
24. Baroni A, Orlando M, Donnarumma G, et al. Toll-like receptor 2 [TLR-2] mediates intracellular signaling in human keratinocytes in response to. Malassezia furfur. Arch Dermatol Res. 2006;297:280–288.
25. Faergemann J, Bergbrant I-M, Dohse M, et al. Seborrhoeic dermatitis and Pityrosporurn [Malassezia] folliculitis:characterization of inflammatory cells and mediators in the skin by immunohistochemistry. Br J Dermatol. 2001;144:549–556.
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Jyotsna Allamsetty, Syam Prashanth Pedada, Simhavalli Godavarthi, and Sujithasri Kandula. “CASE REPORT ON ORAL CORTICOSTERIODS [DEFLAZACORT] INDUCED MALASSEZIA FOLLICULITIS”. International Journal of Health Care and Biological Sciences, Dec. 2020, pp. 65-68, https://saapjournals.org/index.php/ijhcbs/article/view/124.
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