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To the Editor: The images of tinea barbae in a man, provided by Glaser and Riordan (March 12 issue),¹ are accompanied by a picture of the man's dog, which at first glance appears to have the canine counterpart of his master's skin condition. The lesion on the dog, however, is much more likely to be a Staphylococcus intermedius folliculitis or possibly a Malassezia pachydermatis infection. Although Trichophyton mentagrophytes variant mentagrophytes was cultured from the man's skin lesion, no laboratory results are given for the dog. The dog may or may not have been the carrier of the dermatophyte, which could . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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