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Mucormycosis occurs primarily in patients with severe underlying illness, especially leukemia, lymphoma, and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. Cutaneous mucormycosis is somewhat less frequently associated with systemic illness than other forms of...
Jung HD, Chi SG, Lee WJ, Jun JB, Suh SB, Bang YJ, Kim BS, Lee SJ, Kim DW
KMID: 1484701
Korean J Med Mycol.
2008 Mar;13(1):37-40.
Microsporum (M.) ferrugineum has almost disappeared in Korea after three cases of tinea capitis that were reported in Jeonbuk province in 1993. It was most common cause of tinea capitis...
Onychomycosis is caused by dermatophytes usually, but some species of non-dermatophytic molds and yeasts are also associated with invasion of nails. Fusarium (F.) verticillioides is a non-dermatophytic mold, which are...
BACKGROUND: Candida albicans is the most prevalent species found in human yeast infections. The germ tube test is still frequently used for its rapid presumptive identification. Recently Candida dubliniensis as...
BACKGROUND: When Candida species and molds (non-dermatophytic filamentous fungi) are cultured from the onychomycotic nail samples, it is sometimes difficult to consider whether they are the causative fungi or not....