Childhood Onychomycosis: Alternariosis of All Ten Fingernails

Cutis

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 125-128

  Glowacka, Anna ^b   Wasowska Krolikowska, Krystyna ^b   Skowron Kobos, Jolanta ^b   Kurnatowski, Marek ^b   Janniger, Camila Krysicka ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNARIA; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MALE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS;

EID: 0032161102     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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