A disease that was so common in Victorian England that special schools were set up to isolate those that had it is spreading ...

Skin problems are no longer limited to adults. There is a noticeable rise in skin issues among children, ranging from mild ...

Given how long this has been going on, I would expect your dermatologist to perform a scraping and culture of the infected area so that the microbiology lab can identify the condition correctly.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 30 cases of TMVII were recently reported in Minnesota. The infection can mimic eczema, psoriasis and ...

Primary care providers routinely evaluate a wide range of skin conditions during everyday appointments”— Chad Carrone ...

"TMVII is a specific type of fungus that is part of a larger family that causes the usually benign but irksome conditions such as ringworm, jock itch and athlete's foot," Dr. Hayden Andrews, an ...

Minnesota health officials are warning of an outbreak of a contagious fungal skin infection. The condition is triggered by Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII), the same fungal species ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Public health officials in Minnesota are raising the alarm over an unprecedented outbreak of a sexually transmitted fungal infection that causes ringworm-like lesions, particularly in the Twin Cities ...

A statewide advisory for Minnesota has been issued for the “largest known outbreak” in the country of a sexually transmitted form of ringworm. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said the ...

The "largest known outbreak" of sexually transmitted ringworm in the United States is happening in Minnesota, according to local health officials. In an advisory posted Feb. 11, the Minnesota ...