A foot in the door for dermatophyte research

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Achterman, Rebecca Rashid ^a   White, Theodore C ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOPHILIC DERMATOPHYTE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CROWDING; DERMATOPHYTE; DERMATOPHYTOSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INFECTION RISK; MARATHON RUNNER; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLDIER; SPORT; TINEA; TINEA CRURIS; TINEA PEDIS; URBANIZATION; ZOOPHILIC DERMATOPHYTE; ANIMAL; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DERMATOMYCOSES; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; TINEA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84861203340     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002564     Document Type: Article

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