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Fungal Nail Infection : Complications

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Complications could include:
Onychomycosis is typically quite difficult to cure completely. Even if a clinical cure is achieved after long therapy with either topical or oral drugs, normal regrowth takes four to six months in the fingernails, and eight to 12 months in the toe...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Paronychia is a skin infection that occurs around the nails.Paronychia is fairly common. It is usually caused by injury to the area-- for example, from biting off or picking a hangnail or from trimming or pushing back the cuticle.Bacterial paronyc...
Source:ADAM
Date:April 17, 2009
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.
Source:Elsevier
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