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Discrimination of Trichophyton tonsurans and Trichophyton equinum by PCR-RFLP and by β-tubulin and translation elongation factor 1-α sequencing.
Medical mycology - 1 Oct 2012
Rezaei-Matehkolaei Ali, Makimura Koichi, De Hoog G Sybren, Shidfar Mohammad Reza, Satoh Kazuo, Najafzadeh Mohammad Javad, Mirhendi Hossein
Abstract excerpt
Trichophyton tonsurans and T. equinum are two closely related sister species of dermatophytes, but differ in their preferred hosts, i.e., humans or horses, respectively. Routine procedures for their identification depend on studies of their phenotypic, physiological and biochemical characteristics, which are laborious and may yield ambiguous results. Molecular methods using rDNA ITS also had been judged to be...
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