Prevalence of superficial dermatomycoses in 73 renal transplant recipients

Dermatology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-34

  Virgili, Annarosa ^a   Zampino, M R ^a   La Malfa, V ^a   Strumia, R ^a   Bedani, P L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Onychomycosis; Pityriasis versicolor; Renal transplant recipients; Superficial dermatomycosis; Tinea pedis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ITALY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TIME; TINEA VERSICOLOR; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES;

ADULT; AGED; AZATHIOPRINE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYCLOSPORINE; DERMATOMYCOSES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; ITALY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIUM; PREVALENCE; SKIN; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; TINEA VERSICOLOR; TOES; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 0032783161     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018174     Document Type: Article

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