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Molecular epidemiology of Trichophyton tonsurans strains isolated in Japan between 2006 and 2010 and their susceptibility to oral antimycotics.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2011
Anzawa Kazushi, Mochizuki Takashi, Nishibu Akiko, Ishizaki Hiroshi, Kamei Katsuhiko, Takahashi Yoko, Fujihiro Machiko, Shinoda Hidekazu
Abstract excerpt
Trichophyton tonsurans has been isolated among judo practitioners, wrestlers, and sumo wrestlers during an epidemic of tinea corporis and tinea capitis in Japan. A previous study using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the non-transcribed spacer (NTS) region of the ribosomal RNA gene revealed that different sources for the causative fungus in epidemics among judo practitioners and...
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