Identification of Malassezia species from Tunisian patients with pityriasis versicolor and normal subjects

Mycoses

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 242-245

  Salah, S Ben ^a   Makni, F ^a   Marrakchi, S ^b   Sellami, H ^a   Cheikhrouhou, F ^a   Bouassida, S ^b   Zahaf, A ^b   Ayadi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b HEDI CHAKER HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CATALASE; LIPID;

ADULT; AGAR MEDIUM; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA RESTRICTA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINEA VERSICOLOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; TINEA VERSICOLOR; TUNISIA;

ANIMALIA; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA;

EID: 22044437436     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2005.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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