Isolation of dermatophytes from footwear with adhesive tape strips
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Medical Mycology
- Vol. 25 (1) , 59-61
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02681218780000081
Abstract
In a study of 34 patients with clinically active tinea pedis it was possible to isolate the responsible dermatophyte from the patients'' footwear with adhesive tape strips in 41% of the cases. Overgrowth of contaminants was found in most of the rest of the cases. Trichophyton rubrum was the predominant species isolated.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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