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A clarion call for preventing taxonomical errors of dermatophytes using the example of the novel Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VIII uniformly isolated in the Indian epidemic of superficial dermatophytosis.
Mycoses - 1 Jan 2019
Nenoff Pietro, Verma Shyam B, Uhrlaß Silke, Burmester Anke, Gräser Yvonne
Abstract excerpt
An alarming pan Indian increase in the incidence of superficial dermatophytosis has been noticed over the past 5-6 years. Recent studies have demonstrated emerging predominance of Trichophyton (T.) mentagrophytes as the causative organism in such cases. Interestingly, a distinct Indian genotype of T. mentagrophytes has been identified and recognised with the help of sequencing of the ITS region of the rDNA. That...
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