Abstract
T THE ringworm clinic of the Wayne County Health Center, Eloise, Mich., during the last 6 months of 1959, the causative agent in 23 of 74 cases of tinea capitis in children was proved by culture to be Trichophyton tonswrans. This relatively high incidence of T. tonsu,rans infection in an area not previously known to be endemic for this fungus was emphasized in an earlier report (1). More infected children were subsequently seen at the clinic, and a majority of these patients were students from three schools in a particular area of Inkster, Mich. In an effort to determine the extent of this outbreak, casefinding surveys for tinea capitis were undertaken from June 1959 to March 1963 among 15 of Inkster's 22 schools, families of infected children, and patients referred to the ringworm clinic from areas outside Inkster.
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