3 Most Common Causes of Toenail Fungus
Everybody is not willing to get his toenails infected by fungi. Maybe, you also ask what causes toenail fungus. You ask it to avoid all factor causing toenail fungus infection. You may ask google or wikipedia what agents can infect your toenail.
It is important to know what agents cause fungal infection on your toenails. I also search it on google. After reading some informations about toenail fungus, i concluded that there are 3 most common causes of toenail fungus.
A BMJ journal show that fungus infections on toenails are most commonly caused by anthropophilic fungi called dermatophytes, especially from genus Trichophyton, Epidermophyton, and Microsporum. Three most common species causing toenail fungus infection are T rubrum, T mentagrophytes var interdigitale, and E floccosum. T rubrum is now believed as the most common cause of toenail fungus infection worldwide.

May 29th, 2010 at 9:58 am
[...] nail can directly activate melanocytes. However, some fungi can also produce some black pigments. Common causes of toenail fungus, Trichophyton rubrum, can produce a black pigmented hyphae which causes a diffuse or banded nail [...]