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In 2024, a sudden increase in TC cases caused by\n                      <jats:italic>Trichophyton (T.) tonsurans<\/jats:italic>\n                      was observed among young men in Copenhagen, Denmark. Most of the affected individuals had recently received haircuts with electric hair clippers at hair salons prior to symptom onset. We hypothesized that electric hair clippers could be a source of infection spread.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study objective was to investigate whether anthropophilic dermatophytes could be found in electric hair clippers from hair salons.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Hair salons were randomly selected from municipalities in Copenhagen. Sampling was done by swabbing the head of the electric clippers and brushes with a sterile cotton swab moistened with sterile saline water. The swab was thereafter inoculated onto a Sabouraud dextrose agar plate supplemented with cycloheximide and chloramphenicol and incubated at 25\u201328\u00b0C for 4\u2009weeks. Plates with fungal growth were submitted for species identification based on macro\u2010 and micromorphological characteristics and molecular diagnostics.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      133 samples were collected from 57 hair salons, of which 122 were from electric clippers and 11 from cleaning brushes. After 4\u2009weeks of incubation, eight out of the 133 samples from five salons were confirmed positive for\n                      <jats:italic>T. tonsurans<\/jats:italic>\n                      . Of these, five originated from clippers and three from brushes.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The recent outbreak of\n                      <jats:italic>T. tonsurans<\/jats:italic>\n                      in Denmark is most likely attributable to transmission via electric hair clippers and indirectly through cleaning brushes, as\n                      <jats:italic>T. tonsurans<\/jats:italic>\n                      was isolated from 3\/11 (27%) brush samples and 5\/122 (4%) hair clipper samples collected from 5\/57 (9%) hair salons in Copenhagen. 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