Article
[Tricophyton rubrum in a case of tinea unguium phenotypic mycological diagnostic algorithm and its limits].
Bacteriologia, virusologia, parazitologia, epidemiologia (Bucharest, Romania : 1990) - 1 Jan 2000
Constantin Mariana, Brăileanu Mia, Drăcea Olguţa-Nicoleta, Marinescu B, Coman C, Codiţă Irina
Abstract excerpt
Trichophyton rubrum is the most common dermatophyte isolated from human dermatophytosis. We present the mycological diagnosis algorithm and results in an onychomycosis case--tinea unguium. Biological samples have been inoculated on both usual and special culture media and incubated at both 30 degrees C and 37 degrees C for a period of fourteen days. Based on the macroscopic and microscopic characters and on the...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Genetic Techniques
- Humans
- Leg Dermatoses
- Mycological Typing Techniques
- Onychomycosis
- Phenotype
- Trichophyton
