Microsporum fulvum, an Ignored Pathogenic Dermatophyte: A New Clinical Isolation from Iran

Mycopathologia

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 157-160

  Nouripour Sisakht, Sadegh ^a   Rezaei Matehkolaei, Ali ^b   Abastabar, Mahdi ^a   Najafzadeh, Mohammad Javad ^c   Satoh, Kazuo ^d   Ahmadi, Bahram ^a   Hosseinpour, Leila ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dermatophytosis; ITS; Microsporum fulvum; Tinea corporis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 5.8S;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IRAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TINEA; YOUNG ADULT;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TINEA; YOUNG ADULT;

ARTHRODERMA FULVUM; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM;

EID: 84881029508     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-013-9665-9     Document Type: Article

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