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Why do antifungal nail treatments fail?
Treatments don't always work for fungal nail infection - why not? This blog examines possible reasons.

Ivan Bristow
Jul 18 min read
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How common is tinea pedis in children?
How common is athletes foot or tinea pedis in children? This article investigates,

Ivan Bristow
May 14 min read
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What are the best socks if you have athlete's foot?
What are the best socks if you have fungal foot infection? This article looks at recent research into toe socks as a preventative treatment

Ivan Bristow
Feb 244 min read
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Topical azoles & statins. Rare interactions.
Statins are the most commonly prescribed drug today but they can interact with athletes foot treatments.

Ivan Bristow
Nov 9, 20244 min read
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Topical statins - a drug to treat dermatophyte skin infections?
Topical statins have the potential to treat athletes foot infections.

Ivan Bristow
Apr 30, 20243 min read
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Preventing Dermatophyte Reinfection
In this blog, I look at evidence regarding strategies to prevent dermatophyte reinfection of the feet and toenails.

Ivan Bristow
Jun 13, 20237 min read
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Is susceptibility to tinea genetic?
With increasing DNA analysis technology, can we unravel the mystery of tinea? Is susceptibility genetic? This blog looks at recent work.

Ivan Bristow
Nov 8, 20224 min read
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What’s your patient hiding from you?
Tinea incognito a term for an unrecognised fungal skin infection occurring after topical steroid use.

Ivan Bristow
Oct 10, 20223 min read
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Assessing Progress in Onychomycosis
The OSI is a simple clinical tool to quantify and measure the extent of nail involvement in onychomycosis. This video explains how it works.

Ivan Bristow
Aug 30, 20222 min read
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The growing problem of dermatophyte resistance
For many years fungal skin infection, particularly tinea pedis has been a very common pathology which when diagnosed, was considered...

Ivan Bristow
Nov 30, 20214 min read
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Deciphering the fungal code
Thsi articles summarises some of the recent discoveries around fungal virulence amongst dermatophytes.

Ivan Bristow
Jun 16, 20214 min read
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Drug Developments in Onychomycosis
It has been a while since any new drugs have entered the market indicated for the treatment of onychomycosis. In an earlier blog I...

Ivan Bristow
Feb 3, 20213 min read
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