The investigation of an outbreak of ringworm affecting fourteen female patients in two wards of a geriatric hospital, due to an unusual strain of Trichophyton rubrum, is reported. Most of the affected patients were incontinent and developed skin lesions over the buttocks, the backs of the thighs, or the lumbosacral region.
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