Paronychia is a type of nail infection, most commonly caused by the bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus, which affects the ...

The distal subungual onychomycosis (DSO) type is still the most common, but don’t forget that onychomycosis and nail ...

Onychomycosis, or fungal infection of the nail, most often affects the toenails. Infected nails usually have a thick, yellow appearance and can become coarse and brittle (see Figure 4).

Louise Round, a marine animal medic, explained that “seal finger” is caused by the necrotic bacteria on their teeth. She said ...

Here we will discuss the causes, symptoms, and treatment for fungal nail infections. A common fungal infection, Onychomycosis is also known as tinea unguium that leads to brittle, thickened or ...

In the Majengo area of Nyeri town, Jane Muthoni washes her dishes with a lot of pain. One of her fingers is swollen and turned red. "I finished washing my children's clothes using a detergent sold ...

It is used to treat mild to moderate fungal nail infections that does not involve the lunula, by painting it onto the infected fingernails or toenails. The lunula is the crescent-shaped area ...

A four-year-old boy in China needed his finger amputated after his father took him to a foot massage parlour for a fungal nail infection. The treatment led to gangrene. The massage parlour was ...

Swimmers have been warned to give seals their distance amid fears of a “seal finger” infection if bitten by the aquatic mammals that are gathering in their hundreds around the UK coastline.