A comparative survey of serum androgenic hormones levels between male patients with dermatophytosis and normal subjects

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 60-62

  Hashemi, Seyed Jamal ^a   Sarasgani, Mohammed Reza ^a   Zomorodian, Kamiar ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTENEDIONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; FUNGUS GROWTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

ADULT; ANDROSTENEDIONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMOPHYTON; HUMANS; MALE; TESTOSTERONE; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 2542478892     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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