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Efficacy Of Cotton Swab-Culture Method For Diagnosing Tinea Capitis In Pediatric Patients Appears To Be Indistinguishable To The Scrape-Culture Method, Study Indicates

Healio (1/21, Welsh) reports, "Efficacy of the cotton swab-culture method for diagnosing tinea capitis in pediatric patients is indistinguishable to the scrape-culture method," research indicated in a study that included "25 pediatric patients...suspected of tinea capitis diagnosis." Because of "the numerous benefits to the swab technique, the researchers recommend and support adopting this technique in pediatric medicine to obtain samples to diagnose tinea capitis." The findings of the "prospective study" were published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.