Prevalence of symptomatic tinea capitis and associated causative organisms in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana [7]

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 784-786

  Hogewoning, A A ^a   Duijvestein, M ^b   Boakye, D ^c   Amoah, A S ^c   Obeng, B B ^c   Van Der Raaij Helmer, E M H ^b   Staats, C C G ^b   Bouwes Bavinck, J N ^b   Yazdanbakhsh, M ^b   Lavrijsen, A P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GHANA; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORUM; MICROSPORUM AUDOUINII; MICROSPORUM GYPSEUM; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; SCAR FORMATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON CONCENTRICUM; TRICHOPHYTON FERRUGINEUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; TINEA CAPITIS;

EID: 33644858635     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2006.07130.x     Document Type: Letter

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