A "ring in ring' skin infection in a returning traveller

J Travel Med. 2024 Apr 16:taae061. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taae061. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

A 40-year-old woman developed an itchy, expanding cutaneous lesion with two erythematous rings after visiting Senegal. Fungal culture revealed Microsporum audouinii, a fungus causing tinea corporis or capitis commonly in Africa but increasingly reported in outbreaks in Europe.