Malassezia Infections in Humans and Animals: Pathophysiology, Detection, and Treatment

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-6

  Velegraki, Aristea ^a   Cafarchia, Claudia ^b   Gaitanis, Georgios ^c   Iatta, Roberta ^b   Boekhout, Teun ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^f SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DERMATITIS; DERMATOMYCOSES; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOWN REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA DERMATITIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OTITIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; THERAPY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; DERMATITIS; DERMATOMYCOSES; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALASSEZIA; MICROBIOLOGY; OTITIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; THERAPY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; MALASSEZIA;

EID: 84988360143     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004523     Document Type: Article

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