Epidemiology of sporadic (non-epidemic) cases of Trichophyton tonsurans infection in Japan based on PCR-RFLP analysis of non-transcribed spacer region of ribosomal RNA gene

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-222

  Mochizuki, Takashi ^a   Kawasaki, Masako ^a   Anzawa, Kazushi ^a   Fujita, Jun ^a   Ushigami, Tsuyoshi ^a   Takeda, Kiminobu ^a   Sano, Ayako ^b   Takahashi, Yoko ^b   Kamei, Katsuhiko ^b  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FUNGAL RNA; NON TRANSCRIBED SPACER REGION; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; KERION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 45849151367     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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