Fungal skin infections among prison inmates in Abakaliki, Nigeria

Mycoses

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-54

  Oyeka, C A ^a   Eze, I I ^a  

^a NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Fungal skin infections; Nigeria; Prison inmates

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DERMATOPHYTE; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORUM CANIS; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; SCREENING; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DERMATOMYCOSES; FUNGI; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; SKIN;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EPIDERMOPHYTON FLOCCOSUM; MICROSPORUM CANIS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 36749005640     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01408.x     Document Type: Article

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