Fast and sensitive detection of Trichophyton rubrum in superficial tinea and onychomycosis by use of a direct polymerase chain reaction assay

Mycoses

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Brasch, J ^a   Beck Jendroschek, V ^a   Glaser R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture; DNA; KOH mounts; Onychomycosis; PCR; Tinea

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL EXAMINATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NAIL; NONHUMAN; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE MOUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN; TIME; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOLOGY; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 80052806777     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2010.01904.x     Document Type: Article

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