Onychomycosis: First case due to aspergillus nomius

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 591-592

  Zotti, Mirca ^a   Machetti, Marco ^a   Persi, Agostino ^b   Barabino, Gianfranco ^a   Parodi, Aurora ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMOROLFINE; BETA TUBULIN; FUNGAL DNA; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; LETTER; MICROSCOPY; MYCELIUM; NONDERMATOPHYTIC ONCHOMYCOSIS; NONDERMATOPHYTIC ONYCHOMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052013756     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1118     Document Type: Letter

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