Browsing Department of Dermatology by Author "Graser, Yvonne"
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Identification of the causative dermatophyte of tinea capitis in children attending Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda by PCR-ELISA and comparison with conventional mycological diagnostic methods
Wiegand, Cornelia; Mugisha, Peter; Mulyowa, Grace K.; Elsner, Peter; Hipler, Uta-Christina; Graser, Yvonne; Uhrla, Silke; Nenoff, Pietro (Medical mycology, 2017)Tinea capitis is a dermatophyte infection common among prepubertal children in sub- Saharan Africa and mainly caused by Trichophyton and Microsporum species. Accurate identification is challenging as conventional methods ...