A pilot study for the evaluation of pcr as a diagnostic tool in patients with suspected dermatophytoses

• Main Authors: Robin Sharma (Author), Samiksha Gupta (Author), Dinesh P Asati (Author), T Karuna (Author), Shashank Purwar (Author), Debasis Biswas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Context: The conventional diagnostic tools for dermatophytoses suffer from several limitations including low sensitivity, specificity, and long turn-around-time. Aims: The present study was, therefore, performed to evaluate the performance of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method for the di...