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Cutaneous Candidiasis Learning Center
Complications could include:
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Recurrent Fungal Infections
- Paronychia
- Disseminated Candid...
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Infection of nails may cause nails to become oddly shaped and may cause infection around the nail; Recurrence (repeat episodes) of candida skin infection; Widespread (disseminated) candidiasis may occur in immunocompromised individuals;
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Clinical fungal infections are generally divided into four types: (1) superficial, including tinea versicolor, piedra, and tinea nigra; (2) cutaneous, including onychomycosis, tinea capitis, tinea corporis, tinea barbae, tinea pedis, and candidiasis of skin, mucosa, and nails; (3) subcutaneous, including mycetoma, sporotrichosis, and chromoblastomycosis; and (4) systemic, including North American blastomycosis and cryptococcosis. Superficial fungal infections are defined as infections in which a pathogen is restricted to the stratum corneum, with little or no tissue reaction.
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Paronychia is a skin infection that occurs around the nails.
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Cutaneous candidiasis is infection of the skin with candida fungus.
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Candidiasis (thrush, monilia infection) is caused by a fungus that most commonly infects the mouth (usually of infants or persons with weakened immune systems), or the vagina (yeast infection). Another form of candidiasis causes painful inflammati...
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