A 7-year survey of dermatophytoses in Crete, Greece

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 481-484

  Maraki, Sofia ^a   Nioti, Eleni ^a   Mantadakis, Elpis ^a   Tselentis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dermatophytosis; Epidemiology; Greece; Tinea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DERMATOPHYTE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GREECE; HAIR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORUM CANIS; NAIL; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; TINEA CAPITIS; TINEA CORPORIS; TINEA CRURIS; TINEA MANUUM; TINEA PEDIS; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CULTURE MEDIA; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; TRICHOPHYTON; UREA;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; MICROSPORUM CANIS; TINEA CRURIS; TINEA PEDIS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 35348988149     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01403.x     Document Type: Article

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