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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Luke Rusowicz-Orazem, B.S.

Overview

Risk factors for erythrasma include individual and environmental conditions predisposing bacterial infection and proliferation.

Risk factors for erythrasma include individual and environmental conditions predisposing bacterial infection and proliferation, such as:^[1]

Obesity or overweight
Diabetes
Immunocompromised persons
Hyperhidrosis^[2]
Living in a humid, tropical climate^[3]
- Interdigital erythrasma does not have a geographic predisposition
Inpatient residence at a psychiatric hospital^[4]
Participating in the military^[5]^[6]
Being age 40 years or older^[7]^[8]

↑ Holdiness MR (2002). "Management of cutaneous erythrasma". Drugs. 62 (8): 1131–41. PMID 12010076.
↑ Braun-Falco, Otto (1991). Dermatology. Springer. p. 181. ISBN 978-3-662-00181-3.
↑ Sarkany, I. (1962). "Incidence and Bacteriology of Erythrasma". Archives of Dermatology. 85 (5): 578. doi:10.1001/archderm.1962.01590050008002. ISSN 0003-987X.
↑ Somerville DA, Seville RH, Cunningham RC, Noble WC, Savin JA (1970). "Erythrasma in a hospital for the mentally subnormal". Br. J. Dermatol. 82 (4): 355–60. PMID 4245564.
↑ Svejgaard E, Christophersen J, Jelsdorf HM (1986). "Tinea pedis and erythrasma in Danish recruits. Clinical signs, prevalence, incidence, and correlation to atopy". J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 14 (6): 993–9. PMID 3722494.
↑ Rho, Nark-Kyoung; Kim, Beom-Joon (2008). "A corynebacterial triad: Prevalence of erythrasma and trichomycosis axillaris in soldiers with pitted keratolysis". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 58 (2): S57–S58. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2006.05.054. ISSN 0190-9622.
↑ Polat, Muhterem; İlhan, Mustafa N. (2015). "The Prevalence of Interdigital Erythrasma". Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association. 105 (2): 121–124. doi:10.7547/0003-0538-105.2.121. ISSN 8750-7315.
↑ Morales-Trujillo ML, Arenas R, Arroyo S (2008). "[Interdigital erythrasma: clinical, epidemiologic, and microbiologic findings]". Actas Dermosifiliogr (in Spanish; Castilian). 99 (6): 469–73. PMID 18558055.