Fungal profile of clinical specimens from a tertiary care hospital

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2012, Pages

  Kashyap, Bineeta ^a   Das, Shukla ^a   Kaur, Iqbal R ^a   Jhamb, Rajat ^a   Jain, Sarika ^a   Singal, Archana ^a   Gupta, Neelima ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Clinical specimens; Fungal infection; Tertiary care hospital

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE;

ACREMONIUM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; AUREOBASIDIUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLADOSPORIUM; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CULTURE MEDIUM; DERMATOPHYTE; DRECHSLERA; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOTRICUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INDIA; INOCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSIS; NAIL INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOALLESCHERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCEDO; SYNCEPHALASTRUM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 84862172938     PISSN: 22211691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2221-1691(12)60196-8     Document Type: Article

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