Evaluation of susceptibility of Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum clinical isolates to antifungal drugs using a modified CLSI microdilution method (M38-A)

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 514-518

  Barros, Maria Elisabete Da Silva ^a   Santos, Daniel De Assis ^a   Hamdan, Júnia Soares ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; GRISEOFULVIN; ITRACONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DERMATOPHYTE; DILUTION; EVALUATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INOCULATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NAPHTHALENES; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 34247230251     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46542-0     Document Type: Article

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