White variants of Trichophyton violaceum isolated in Ethiopia

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Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 708-712

  Woldeamanuel, Y ^a   Leekassa, R ^b   Petrini, B ^c   Chryssanthou, E ^c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b All Africa Leprosy Tuberculosis and Rehabilitation Training Centre Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dermatophytes; DNA sequencing; Internal transcribed spacer region

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DERMATOPHYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHIOPIA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM;

EID: 28844444615     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2005.apm_311.x     Document Type: Article

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