Genotype analysis of the rRNA gene of Malassezia colonizing the skin surface of patients with atopic dermatitis

Japanese Journal of Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 147-150

  Sugita, Takashi ^a  

^a MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; IGS (intergenic spacer); Malassezia; Ribosomal RNA gene

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA DERMATIS; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA JAPONICA; MALASSEZIA NANA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALASSEZIA RESTRICTA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA YAMATOENSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA DERMATIS; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA JAPONICA; MALASSEZIA NANA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALASSEZIA RESTRICTA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA YAMATOENSIS; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

EID: 24944456310     PISSN: 09164804     EISSN: 09164804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3314/jjmm.46.147     Document Type: Review

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