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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/120px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/favus" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:favus"> favus</a></b></i> in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.</div></div> </div> <p><b>Favus</b> (Latin for "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/favus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:favus">honeycomb</a>") or tinea favosa is the severe form of <a href="/wiki/Tinea_capitis" title="Tinea capitis">tinea capitis</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Skin_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Skin disease">skin</a> <a href="/wiki/Infectious_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Infectious disease">infectious disease</a> caused by the <a href="/wiki/Dermatophyte" title="Dermatophyte">dermatophyte</a> fungus <i><a href="/wiki/Trichophyton_schoenleinii" class="mw-redirect" title="Trichophyton schoenleinii">Trichophyton schoenleinii</a>.</i> Typically the species affects the <a href="/wiki/Scalp" title="Scalp">scalp</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but occasionally occurs as <a href="/wiki/Onychomycosis" title="Onychomycosis">onychomycosis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tinea_barbae" title="Tinea barbae">tinea barbae</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Tinea_corporis" title="Tinea corporis">tinea corporis</a>. </p><p>The word <i>favid</i> is more used than French word <i>favus</i>, which is close to the Latin etymology.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presentation">Presentation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Favus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Presentation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg/220px-Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg/330px-Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg/440px-Fox_Plate_XXXIII.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2120" data-file-height="2711" /></a><figcaption>Favus on the head and legs</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg/220px-Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg/330px-Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg/440px-Tinea_favosa_on_the_arm_Wellcome_L0062074.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5777" data-file-height="3520" /></a><figcaption>Favus on the arm</figcaption></figure> <p>The uncomplicated appearance is that of a number of yellowish, circular, cup-shaped crusts (<a href="/wiki/Scutulum" title="Scutulum">scutulum</a> or <a href="/wiki/Shield" title="Shield">shield</a>) grouped in patches like a honeycomb, each crust about the size of a <a href="/wiki/Split_pea" title="Split pea">split pea</a>, with a bundle of hair projecting in the center. These increase in size and become crusted over, so that the characteristic <a href="/wiki/Lesion" title="Lesion">lesion</a> can only be seen round the edge of the <a href="/wiki/Wound_healing#Proliferative_phase" title="Wound healing">scab</a>. A mousy odour is often present. Growth continues to take place for several months, when scab and <a href="/wiki/Scutulum" title="Scutulum">scutulum</a> go away, leaving a shining bare patch destitute of hair. The disease is essentially chronic, lasting from ten to twenty years. It is caused by the growth of a <a href="/wiki/Fungus" title="Fungus">fungus</a>, and pathologically is the reaction of the tissues to the growth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fungus was named after a microscopic structure termed "achorion" (a term not used in modern science), seen in scrapings of infected skin, which consists of slender, <a href="/wiki/Mycelia" class="mw-redirect" title="Mycelia">mycelial</a> threads matted together, bearing oval, nucleated fungal substrate-<a href="/wiki/Arthroconidia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthroconidia">arthroconidia</a> either free or jointed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This structure is currently called "scutula." The fungus itself is now called <i><a href="/wiki/Trichophyton" title="Trichophyton">Trichophyton</a> schoenleinii</i>. </p><p>During initial infection, the fungal spores would appear to enter through the unbroken cutaneous surface, and to germinate mostly in and around the <a href="/wiki/Hair_follicle" title="Hair follicle">hair follicle</a> and sometimes in the shaft of the hair. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Species">Species</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Favus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Species"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Favus is the first human <a href="/wiki/Fungal_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Fungal disease">fungal disease</a> in which a fungus was definitely identified (by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Lukas_Sch%C3%B6nlein" title="Johann Lukas Schönlein">J. L. Schönlein</a> in 1839). The discovery was published in a brief note of twenty lines in <i><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Peter_M%C3%BCller" title="Johannes Peter Müller">Müllers</a> Archiv</i> for that year (p. 82).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1841, the Hungary-born French physician <a href="/wiki/David_Gruby" title="David Gruby">David Gruby</a> independently described the fungus-associated favus. The fungus was subsequently named by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Remak" title="Robert Remak">Robert Remak</a> as <i><a href="/wiki/Achorion" title="Achorion">Achorion</a> schoenleinii</i> in honor of its discoverer. </p><p>In 1892, two additional "species" of the fungus were described by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Gerson_Unna" title="Paul Gerson Unna">Paul Gerson Unna</a>: the <i>Favus griseus</i>, giving rise to greyish-yellow <a href="/wiki/Scutula" title="Scutula">scutula</a>; and the <i>Favus sulphureus celerior</i>, causing sulfur-yellow scutula of a rapid growth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was in the days before scientists learned to rigorously distinguish microorganism-identities from disease-identities, and these antique, ambiguous disease-based names no longer have status either in <a href="/wiki/Mycology" title="Mycology">mycology</a> or in <a href="/wiki/Dermatology" title="Dermatology">dermatology</a> today. </p><p>Similar looking infections, sometimes diagnosed as favid but more often as atypical inflammatory tinea, may be caused by more common dermatophyte infections, in particular <i><a href="/wiki/Microsporum_gypseum" title="Microsporum gypseum">Microsporum gypseum</a></i>, the most common soil-borne dermatophyte, and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Trichophyton_quinckeanum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Trichophyton quinckeanum (page does not exist)">Trichophyton quinckeanum</a>.</i> The latter was previously called <i>Trichophyton mentagrophytes</i> var. <i>quinckeanum</i>, the agent of mouse favus infection. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Treatment">Treatment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Favus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Treatment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Up until the advent of modern therapies, favus was widespread worldwide; prior to Schönlein's recognition of it as a fungal disease, it was frequently confused with <a href="/wiki/Hansen%27s_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Hansen's disease">Hansen's disease</a>, better known as <a href="/wiki/Leprosy" title="Leprosy">leprosy</a>, and affected Europeans were sometimes committed to leprosaria. Today, due to this species' high susceptibility to the antifungal drug <a href="/wiki/Griseofulvin" title="Griseofulvin">griseofulvin</a>, it has been eliminated from most parts of the world except rural central Asia and scattered rural areas of Africa. It is mainly a disease connected to demographic poverty and isolation, but is so readily treatable that it is among the diseases most likely to be eliminated by modern medicine. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Favus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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