Publications

trichophyton mentagrophytes skin infections in laboratory animals as a cause of zoonosis.	recent sporadic distribution in japan of trichophyton mentagrophytes skin infections among laboratory rats or guinea pigs is reported. six cases of laboratory infection by the fungus in humans who came in direct contact with the affected animals are also presented. mating experiments with the causative fungi isolated from the animal and human skin lesions revealed that all but one sexually reactive strains belonged to the "+" mating type of arthroderma vanbreuseghemii. a retrospective epidemiolo ...	1981	7219511
[molecular epidemiology of japanese isolates of arthroderma benhamiae by polymorphisms of non-transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal dna].	we made a molecular epidemiological study of arthroderma benhamiae, a teleomorphic species of the trichophyton mentagrophytes complex, using polymorphisms of the non-transcribed spacer region (nts) of ribosomal dna. thirteen isolates -hyogo 2 isolates, saitama 2 isolates, shimane 2 isolates, tokyo 1 isolate, nagasaki 4 isolates- were isolated from dermatophytoses lesions on pet animals and/or their owners, while 2 gifu isolates were cultured from lesions on the face and hand of a pet shop worker ...	2002	11865294