Dermatophytosis and other fungal infections

Leader

Sophie Brun

CHU Avicenne, Paris

Other members of the section

Yohann LE GOVIC (CHU Amiens)
Maxime MONIOT (CHU Clermont-Ferrand)
Françoise BOTTEREL (AH-HP, CHU Henri Mondor, Créteil)
Marc SAUTOUR (CHU Dijon)
Nicole DESBOIS (CHU Fort-de-France)
Cécile GARNAUD (CHU Grenoble)
Séverine LORIDANT (CHU Lille)
Marie-Fleur DURIEUX (CHU Limoges)
Charline MIOSSEC (CHU Lyon)
Veronica RISCO-CASTILLO (Ecole Vétérinaire de Maison-Alfort)
Noémie CORON (BioGroup Mouans-Sartoux)
Claire COTTREL (CHU Nancy)
Rose-Anne LAVERGNE (CHU Nantes)
Jacques GUILLOT (Ecole Vétérinaire de Nantes)
Lilia HASSEINE (CHU Nice)
Alicia MORENO-SABATER (AH-HP, CHU St-Antoine, Paris)
Arnaud JABET (AH-HP, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris)
Arnaud FEKKAR (AP-HP, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris)
Eric DANNAOUI (AH-HP, CHU Necker, Paris)
Maud GITS-MUSELLI (AP-HP, CHU Robert Debré, Paris)
Antoine HUGUENIN (CHU Reims)
Hélène GUEGAN (CHU Rennes)
Elodie PERNOT-MARINO (BioGroup Strasbourg)
Laure KAMUS (CHU St-Denis de la Réunion)
Pamela CHAUVIN (CHU Toulouse)

Setting

Dermatophytoses are very common superficial fungal infections (prevalence of 15–20% in France), most often contagious, and have until now been relatively neglected because they did not pose any particular management problems. In recent years, however, two issues have emerged: on the one hand, extensive, recalcitrant dermatophytoses that are often resistant to antifungal treatments; on the other hand, therapeutic questions, particularly regarding tinea capitis in children, following the abrupt withdrawal from the market of the only antifungal treatment that held a marketing authorization in France. In addition, the epidemiology of these infections has been changing rapidly in recent years owing to major population movements.

Objectives

Monitor the epidemiology of dermatophytes, the spread of dermatophyte resistance, and the available therapeutic options
Provide expertise in diagnostic tools (antifungal susceptibility testing, sequencing, metagenomics, etc.)
Play an advisory role: diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive recommendations
Coordinate national and international research projects
Serve as the preferred contact of SFMM for research projects with other scientific societies

To this aim, this section relies on four working groups (Tinea capitis – Onychomycosis –Antifungal Resistance – Zoophilic Dermatophytosis).