ReviewMycopathologia2017
Diagnosis of Dermatophytosis Using Molecular Biology.
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- Superficial Fungal Infections in Children-What Do We Know?Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Dual-Emission FRET-PCR Outperforms SYBR Green and EvaGreen for Accurate Discrimination of Primary Canine Dermatophytes:Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dermatophytosis in context of Trichophyton rubrum: host defense mechanisms, virulence factors, and treatment innovations.Molecular biology reports · 2025Review
- Current Performance of MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Databases for the Identification of Dermatophyte Species.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Precision diagnostics in paediatric dermatology: Advancing management of tinea capitis through dermatophyte PCR.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2025Article
- First Step on the Way to Identify Dermatophytes Using Odour Fingerprints.Mycopathologia · 2025Article
- Detection of Pan-Dermatophytes and Trichophyton rubrum Using Recombinase Polymerase Amplification-Lateral Flow Dipstick Assay.Mycopathologia · 2024Article
- Characterization and Fungicide Sensitivity ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Expert Panel Review of Skin and Hair Dermatophytoses in an Era of Antifungal Resistance.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2024Review
- [Conventional and molecular diagnostics in onychomycosis-part 2 : Molecular identification of causative dermatophytes by polymerase chain reaction and sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Molecular Characterization of Dermatophyte species from rural tertiary care hospital: A Study Protocol.F1000Research · 2024Article
- Cutaneous Fungal Infections Caused by Dermatophytes and Non-Dermatophytes: An Updated Comprehensive Review of Epidemiology, Clinical Presentations, and Diagnostic Testing.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Bovine ringworm - Detection ofMedical mycology case reports · 2023Article
- Identification of Dermatophyte and Non-Dermatophyte Agents in Onychomycosis by PCR and DNA Sequencing-A Retrospective Comparison of Diagnostic Tools.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Protective manifestation of herbonanoceuticals as antifungals: A possible drug candidate for dermatophytic infection.Health science reports · 2022Article
- Rapid and Visual RPA-Cas12a Fluorescence Assay for Accurate Detection of Dermatophytes in Cats and Dogs.Biosensors · 2022Article
- Molecular study and antifungal susceptibility profile ofIranian journal of microbiology · 2022Article
- Diagnosing Onychomycosis: What's New?Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Identification of fungi in dermatological samples using PCR is reliable and provides significantly improved results in comparison with cultures. It is possible to identify the infectious agent when negative results are obtained from cultures. In addition, identification of the infectious agent can be obtained in 1 day. Conventional and real-time PCR methods used for direct fungus identification in collected samples vary by DNA extraction methods, targeted DNA and primers, and the way of analysing the PCR products. The choice of a unique method in a laboratory is complicated because the results expected from skin and hair sample analysis are different from those expected in cases of onychomycosis. In skin and hair samples, one dermatophyte among about a dozen possible species has to be identified. In onychomycosis, the infectious agents are mainly Trichophyton rubrum and, to a lesser extent, Trichophyton interdigitale, but also moulds insensitive to oral treatments used for dermatophytes, which renders fungal identification mandatory. The benefits obtained with the use of PCR methods for routine analysis of dermatological samples have to be put in balance with the relative importance of getting a result in a short time, the price of molecular biology reagents and equipment, and especially the time spent conducting laboratory manipulations.
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