Mycological examination of the hair samples of 11 school-going Nepalese children suspected of tinea capitis

Mycoses

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 51-54

  Basnet, S B ^a   Basnet, N B ^b   Hiruma, M ^a   Inaba, Y ^a   Makimura, K ^c   Kawada, A ^d  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children; Hair samples; Nepal; Tinea capitis; Trichophyton violaceum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEPAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SCHOOL CHILD; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; NEPAL; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON;

FUNGI; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM;

EID: 0034120384     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2000.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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