Changes in frequency of agents of tinea capitis in school children fromWestern China suggest slow migration rates in dermatophytes

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 421-427

  Deng, S ^a,b   Bulmer, G S ^c   Summerbell, R C ^b   De Hoog, G S ^b   Hui, Y ^a   Graser Y ^d  

^a XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Dermatophytes; Epidemiology; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DERMATOPHYTE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSPORUM; MICROSPORUM FERRUGINEUM; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; TAXONOMY; TINEA CAPITIS; TRICHOPHYTON; TRICHOPHYTON SCHOENLEINI; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; TRICHOPHYTON VERRUCOSUM; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM; ZOONOSIS;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CHILD; CHINA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RURAL POPULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TINEA CAPITIS;

ANIMALIA; ARTHRODERMA VANBREUSEGHEMII; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; MICROSPORUM FERRUGINEUM; TRICHOPHYTON SCHOENLEINII; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; TRICHOPHYTON VIOLACEUM;

EID: 48249093809     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701883730     Document Type: Article

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