Rare case of a Trichophyton rubrum infection coexisting in a human and an animal Rzadki przypadek wspó istnienia zaka enia Trichophyton rubrum u cz owieka i zwierz cia

The paper describes a very rare case of a coexisting fungal infection caused by Trichophyton rubrum in a male patient working on a homestead and in a breeding animal - a pig. At first, the infection in the human patient was suggested to be a zoogenic glabrous skin mycosis. The patient was carefully interviewed and a careful dermatological examination was conducted. Additional tests including mycological test on material from patient's skin lesions and toenails as well as on material from infected animal?s skin lesions. It allowed a proper diagnosis and identication of the pathogen as an antropophilic dermatophyte T. rubrum in both cases. Moreover, certain factors increasing the risk of fungal infection in patients working on farms and with close contact with homestead animals were taken into consideration. This study emphasises the importance of culture and a direct mycological test in proper diagnosis. What is more, it points out, that in case of a coexisting fungal infection in both a human and an animal a source of the pathogen is not always the animal.