Pathogenic fungi proliferate preferentially in humid, warm and dark environments.

Likewise, it seems that there is a family predisposition that increases the risk of suffering from athlete's foot.

Healthy skin, through its multilayer structure and healthy microbiological colonization of the dermal flora, is a protective barrier against pathogenic fungal infections.

Athlete's foot is widespread throughout the world, it is the most frequent cutaneous mycosis and in Spain, an epidemiological study showed that the frequency of this pathology was 12.6%.