TY - JOUR AU - Jabet, Arnaud AU - Dellière, Sarah AU - Seang, Sophie AU - Chermak, Aziza AU - Schneider, Luminita AU - Chiarabini, Thibault AU - Teboul, Alexandre AU - Hickman, Geoffroy AU - Bozonnat, Alizée AU - Brin, Cécile AU - Favier, Marion AU - Tamzali, Yanis AU - Chasset, François AU - Barete, Stéphane AU - Hamane, Samia AU - Benderdouche, Mazzouz AU - Moreno-Sabater, Alicia AU - Dannaoui, Eric AU - Hennequin, Christophe AU - Fekkar, Arnaud AU - Piarroux, Renaud AU - Normand, Anne-Cécile AU - Monsel, Gentiane T1 - Sexually Transmitted Trichophyton mentagrophytes Genotype VII Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2023 VL - 29 IS - 7 SP - 1411 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Transmission of dermatophytes, especially Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII, during sexual intercourse has been recently reported. We report 13 such cases in France. All patients were male; 12 were men who have sex with men. Our findings suggest sexual transmission of this pathogen within a specific population, men who have sex with men. KW - Tinea KW - sexually transmitted infections KW - Trichophyton mentagrophytes KW - monkeypox KW - HIV KW - terbinafine KW - dermatophytosis KW - fungi KW - viruses KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid2907.230025 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/7/23-0025_article ER - End of Reference