[Dermatophytoses in the urban environment and the coexistence of man with dogs and cats].

There have been submitted to clinical exam in laboratory of dermatophytosis 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 dermatophytosis. This search associated to the obtained data in questionnaires permitted us to identify the frequency of domicile outbreaks. Within the 83 people with dermatosis isolated of human infections, prevailed the anthropophilic species over the zoophilic ones, and that it was observed a confluence of human and animal diagnosis in 100% of the human dermatophytosis zoophilic cases, where the same species were identified in men and contacting animals: M. canis and T. mentagrophytes. As the patients carrying anthropophilic 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 zoophilic 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.