Despite its name, ringworm isn’t an infection caused by worms or a parasite. Rather, it’s an infection caused by fungi that ...

Athlete’s hand Athlete’s hand, or tinea manuum, is the name used if the ringworm infection is on one or both hands. It can be on the palm or the back of the hand, or in the skin folds between ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3576533 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3576533 A series of about 2200 children who received X-ray treatment for ringworm of the scalp (tinea ...

Doctors in New York City are describing the first known U.S. cases of sexually transmitted ringworm ... of the fungal infection through skin-to-skin sexual contact has been rare, although cases ...