Trichosporon isolation from human ungueal infections: is there a pathogenic role?

• Main Authors: Alba Regina de Magalhães (Author), Marília Martins Nishikawa (Author), Silvia Suzana Bona de Mondino (Author), Heloisa Werneck de Macedo (Author), Elisabeth Martins da Silva da Rocha (Author), Andrea Regina de Souza Baptista (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract BACKGROUND: Although dermatophytes are considered the major cause of onychomycosis, many reports have incriminated non-dermatophyte moulds and yeasts in the disease's etiology. Successive Trichosporon isolation from onychomycosis has led to the genus being suspected as a nail primary p...