Kerion celsi
Findings
No curated finding names Kerion celsi yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A rare inflammatory and suppurating type of tinea capitis, a skin infection caused by Trichophyton or Microsporum fungi, that predominantly affects the scalp and that is characterized by the development of painful crusty lesions covered with follicular pustules and surrounded by erythematous alopecic areas, that can later evolve into abscesses and leave permanent cicatricial alopecia. Lesions can be associated with regional lymphadenopathy.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0010146), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
8 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Inflammatory abnormality of the skinHPOHP:0011123
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Recurrent cutaneous abscess formationHPOHP:0100838
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Recurrent skin infectionsHPOHP:0001581
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- AlopeciaHPOHP:0001596
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- FeverHPOHP:0001945
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- LymphadenopathyHPOHP:0002716
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Migraine
Where it sits
- A kind of