_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: ofonimemark@yahoo.com; Microbiology Research Journal International 19(1): 1-7, 2017; Article no.MRJI.31091 Previously known as British Microbiology Research Journal ISSN: 2231-0886, NLM ID: 101608140 SCIENCEDOMAIN international www.sciencedomain.org Barbing Equipments: Tools for Transmission of Tinea Capitis Ofonime M. Ogba 1* , David E. Bassey 1 , Oluwayemisi A. Olorode 2 and Maurice Mbah 1 1 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Yenagoa, Nigeria. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author OMO designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, wrote the protocol and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Author DEB managed the analyses of the study. Authors OAO and MM managed the literature search and statistical analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/MRJI/2017/31091 Editor(s): (1) Ana Cláudia Coelho, Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal. Reviewers: (1) F. Solano, University of Murcia, Spain. (2) Sundar Khadka, National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), Kathmandu, Nepal. (3) Rameshwari Thakur, Choudhary Charan Singh University, U.P., India. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sciencedomain.org/review-history/18094 Received 19 th December 2016 Accepted 10 th February 2017 Published 7 th March 2017 ABSTRACT This efficacy of sterilization and cleaning methods used in the barbing salons and the possibility of those equipments acting as vehicles of transmission of fungal pathogens from one customer to another was assessed in this study. Thirty barbing saloons were randomly selected from the five wards in Calabar South. One hundred and fifty samples were aseptically collected using sterile swab sticks to brush out debris from combs, hair brushes and sterilized clippers into sterile paper envelopes. Samples were subjected to microscopy, culture and physiological tests. The recovery rate of fungal organisms from barbing equipments was 52(34.7%). Dermatophytes recovery rates was 40(26.7%) and non dermatophytes recovery rates was 12(8.0%). There was a statistically significant relationship between dermatophytes and barbing equipments recovered from (χ 2 = 25.0, p =0.01). Trichophyton interdigitale 12(30.0%). was the most common dermatophtye recovered Original Research Article