| dc.contributor.author | Nsanze, H | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lestringant, GG | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mustafa, N | |
| dc.contributor.author | Usmani, MA | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-11T05:57:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-11T05:57:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995-10 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mycoses. 1995 Sep-Oct;38(9-10):421-4. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8569820 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31106 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A 1-year study was conducted on 151 patients with finger- or toenail disease attending a dermatology clinic in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Nail scrapings and or clippings were collected and investigated with a KOH preparation for direct microscopy and cultured for fungi. Eighty-nine (59%) patients were females. Most females (62%) presented with fingernail disease while in men the toenails were involved in 76%. Fungi were isolated in 78 (52%) of all cases and the fingernails were more commonly positive than toenails. Of the 78 isolates, 49 (63%) were yeasts, including eight Candida species, dermatophytes accounted for 22 (28%) and seven (9%) were other moulds. Non-dermatophyte moulds constituted 20% of male isolates but only 4% of female isolates. Eighty-one per cent of Candida species were from fingernails, while 87% of all the dermatophytes were from toenails. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
| dc.title | Aetiology of onychomycosis in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Medicine | en |
