Widespread tinea corporis caused by Trichophyton rubrum with non-typical cultural characteristics - Diagnosis via PCR

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 26-30

  Seyfarth, Florian ^a   Ziemer, Mirjana ^a   Gräser, Yvonne ^b   Elsner, Peter ^a   Hipler, Uta Christina ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal transcribed spacer; PCR; Tinea corporis; Trichophyton rubrum

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CLOTRIMAZOLE; FLUOCINOLONE NEOMYCINE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA; TERBINAFINE; TRIAMCINOLONE ECONAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ERYTHEMATOSQUAMOUS SKIN DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN PRURITUS; TINEA CORPORIS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 34547750852     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01427.x     Document Type: Article

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