A disease in which zoonotic fungal infections of high contagiousness are responsible for sickness process of hair.
In the process of Microsporum canis infection there are huge focuses of hair broken on the same height without an accompanying inflammatory condition. Additionally, defurfuration and characteristic celadon fluorescence under Wood’s Lamp are observed.
The course of disease is connected to the presence of small focuses of hair broken on various heights not changed on the area of skin. In this case there is no fluorescence under Wood’s lamp.
It is marked by the presence of acute inflammatory, moist blotches on the surface. Its typical feature is the fact that hair can be easily and painlessly removed. .