A new darkly pigmented and keratinolytic species of Acremonium (Hyphomycetes) with relationship to the Plectosphaerellaceae from human skin and nail lesions in Panama

Nova Hedwigia

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 457-468

  Weisenborn, Jascha L F ^a   Kirschner, Roland ^a   Piepenbring, Meike ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acremonium; Dermatomycoses; Human mycoses; Hyphomycetes; Onychomycoses; Plectosphaerellaceae

Indexed keywords

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ARTHRODERMATACEAE; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES;

EID: 77950660480     PISSN: 00295035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0029-5035/2010/0090-0457     Document Type: Article

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