Epidemiologic and clinicomycologic profile of onychomycosis from north India

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 584-587

  Sarma, Smita ^a   Capoor, Malini R ^a,b   Deb, Monorama ^a   Ramesh, V ^a   Aggarwal, Pushpa ^a  

^a SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHYTE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; HAND DERMATOSES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 43549118909     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2008.03674.x     Document Type: Article

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