The first isolation in Japan of Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. erinacei causing tinea manuum

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 765-768

  Mochizuki, Takashi ^a   Takeda, Kiminobu ^a   Nakagawa, Masato ^a   Kawasaki, Masako ^a   Tanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Ishizaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; DNA FRAGMENT; FLUOCINOLONE ACETONIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; STEROID; TERBINAFINE; TRICHOPHYTIN; UREASE;

ADULT; ARM DISEASE; ARTHRODERMA; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; BASE PAIRING; CASE REPORT; CONIDIUM; DERMATOPHYTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ERYTHEMA; FOREARM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HAND DISEASE; HEDGEHOG; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INCUBATION TIME; JAPAN; MATING; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPULE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; PRURITUS; RASH; RNA SEQUENCE; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKIN TEST; SUNFLOWER; TINEA MANUUM; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HAND DERMATOSES; HEDGEHOGS; HUMANS; JAPAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 24944563877     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2004.02180.x     Document Type: Article

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