The current Indian epidemic of superficial dermatophytosis due to <i>Trichophyton mentagrophytes</i> —A molecular study

Nenoff, Pietro; B. Verma, Shyam; Vasani, Resham; Burmester, Anke; Hipler, Uta‐Christina; Wittig, Franziska; Krüger, Constanze; Nenoff, Kolja; Wiegand, Cornelia; Saraswat, Abir; Madhu, Rengarajan; Panda, Saumya; Das, Anupam; M. Kura, Mahendra; Jain, Akshay; Koch, Daniela; Gräser, Yvonne; Uhrlaß, Silke

doi:10.1111/myc.12878

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The current Indian epidemic of superficial dermatophytosis due to Trichophyton mentagrophytes —A molecular study

Published in Mycoses • Dec 18, 2018

Authors:

Pietro Nenoff

Shyam B. Verma

Resham Vasani

Abstract

The disease burden of chronic-relapsing and therapy-refractory superficial dermatophytosis dramatically increased in India within the past 5-6 years. In order to evaluate the prevalence of this trend, 201 skin scrapings were collected from patients from all parts of India and were tested for dermato...

Subject

Trichophyton rubrum

Dermatophyte

Trichophyton

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