Year 2013

• PCR test for Microsporum canis identification

  Publication

  • A. Brillowska-Dąbrowska
  • E. Michałek
  • D. M. Saunte
  • S. S. Nielsen
  • M. C. Arendrup

  - MEDICAL MYCOLOGY - Year 2013

  Microsporum canis, for which the natural hosts are cats and dogs, is the most prevalent zoophilic agent causing tinea capitis and tinea corporis in humans. We present here a diagnostic PCR test for M. canis, since its detection and species identification is relevant to the choice of treatment and to the understanding of a probable source of infection. An M. canis-specific PCR was evaluated using 130 clinical isolates of dermatophytes...

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