Epidemiology of dermatomycoses in children living in Northern Greece 1996-2000

Mycoses

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-16

  Koussidou Eremondi, Thalia ^a,c   Devliotou Panagiotidou, Despina ^b,c   Mourellou Tsatsou, Olga ^a   Minas, A ^b  

^a State Hospital for Skin and Venereal Diseases   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Mycological Laboratory SHSVD   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Dermatomycoses; Epidemiology; Greece

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DERMATOPHYTE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORUM CANIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TINEA CAPITIS; TINEA CORPORIS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSPORUM; PREVALENCE; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANIS; FUNGI; MICROSPORUM CANIS; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 13844271511     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2004.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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