Favus Pictures

Definition: Favus is a contagious fungal infection of the scalp, producing honeycomblike crusts, a musty odor, and itching. The condition occurs chiefly in the Middle East and Africa.

Notes from 1917 Medical Textbook: "Favus, in a woman aged twenty-three, of some years duration; showing hair loss, atrophic thinning of the skin, and the cup-shaped crusts at peripheral portion."

Notes from 1917 Medical Textbook: "Favus, in a Russian boy aged fourteen, of eight years' duration, showing the extensive atrophic, cicatricial, hairless areas left. Disease only active now posteriorly, and to a slight extent to the right anteriorly, from which the crusts have been removed."

Favus on the scalp of a young boy.