Fungal Folliculitis Scalp. Scalp folliculitis is a typical skin condition in which hair follicles become excited. Folliculitis is an acute infectious process which affects the upper portion of the hair follicle, or the structure from which the hair originates, and consists of four parts called the infundibulum, the isthmus, the region soprabulbare and the bulb.
Skin damage can result from common skin conditions, such as psoriasis and eczema. On human skin there are an average of about 5 million hair follicles. Fungal folliculitis or malassezia folliculitis is present on body locations in which malassezia organisms are most abundant: