Toenail onychomycosis in Estonia

Mycoses

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 57-61

  Jarv H ^a   Naaber, P ^a   Kaur, S ^b   Eisen, M ^b   Silm, H ^b  

^a TARTU UNIVERSITY CLINICS   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Dermatophytes; Epidemiology; Estonia; Onychomycosis; Tinea pedis; Tinea unguium; Trichophyton rubrum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOLOGY; NAIL; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TOE; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CHILD; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; NAIL DISEASES; NAILS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PREVALENCE; TRICHOPHYTON; YEASTS;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 1642390944     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2003.00947.x     Document Type: Article

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