Nail disease due to Scytalidium in Martinique (French West Indies);Onychomycoses à Scytalidium en Martinique

Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-249

  Belloeuf, L ^a   Boisseau Garsaud, A M ^a   Saint Cyr, I ^a   Desbois, N ^a   Helenon R ^a   Queneherve C ^a   Cales Quist D ^a   Garsaud, P ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOHEXIMIDE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; FRANCE; FUNGUS; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MARTINIQUE; NAIL DISEASE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; SCYTALIDIUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOE; TROPICAL DISEASE;

EID: 1942466657     PISSN: 01519638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0151-9638(04)93586-7     Document Type: Article

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