Molecular confirmation of a Trichophyton violaceum isolate from human black-dot ringworm

Mycopathologia

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 127-130

  Okabayashi, Ken ^b   Kano, Rui ^b   Nakamura, Yuka ^a   Ooka, Shiho ^c   Kashima, Masato ^c   Mizoguchi, Masako ^c   Watanabe, Shinichi ^a   Hasegawa, Atsuhiko ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Black dot ringworm; Chitin synthase gene; Phylogeny; T. tonsurans; T. violaceum; Trichophyton rubrum

Indexed keywords

BLACK DOT RINGWORM; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL GROWTH; FUNGAL INFECTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; JAPAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; CHITIN SYNTHASE; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; FUNGI; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0033508708     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007091607889     Document Type: Article

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