There have been submitted to clinical exam in laboratory of dermatofitosis and inquired about possible contact with domestic animals (dogs and cats) 158 patients living in the urban area of Fortaleza, that showed lesions suspected of dermatofitosis. This search associated to the obtained data in questionnaires permitted us to identify the frquency of domicile outbreaks. Within the 83 people with dermatosis isolated of human infections, prevailed the anthopophylical species over the zoophylical ones, and that it was observed a confluence of human and animal diagnosis in 100% of the human dermatophytosis zoophylical cases, where the same species were identified in men and contacting animals: M. canis and T. mentagrophytes. As the patients carrying antropophylical dermatophytosis varied as to the contact with animals, not having been these fungus isolated from none of the contacting animals. Before the low frequency of zoophylical dermatophytosis, it was considered that the intimacy of men with domestic dogs and cats represented was little as a conditional factor of occurrence of dermatophytosis in the urban environment.
Dermatophytosis; Epidemiology; Dogs; Cats; Urban
