A different kind of hedgehog pathway: Tinea manus due to Trichophyton erinacei transmitted by an African pygmy hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris)

Mycoses

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 125-127

  Weishaupt, Julia ^a   Kolb Mäurer, Annette ^a   Lempert, Sigrid ^a   Nenoff, Pietro ^b   Uhrlaß, Silke ^b   Hamm, Henning ^a   Goebeler, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Lab fur Medizinische Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atelerix albiventris; Hedgehog; Terbinafine; Tinea manus; Trichophyton erinacei; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

CICLOPIROXOLAMINE; DIFLUCORTOLONE VALERATE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; ISOCONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE;

ADULT; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTICLE; ATELERIX; ATELERIX ALBIVENTRIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; TINEA MANUUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; ATELERIX ALBIVENTRIS; ERINACEIDAE; TRICHOPHYTON ERINACEI;

ATELERIX ALBIVENTRIS; HEDGEHOG; TERBINAFINE; TINEA MANUS; TRICHOPHYTON ERINACEI; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HAND; HEDGEHOGS; HUMANS; TINEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOPHYTON; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84892844145     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12113     Document Type: Article

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