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Pityriasis versicolor rubra Volume 12, numéro 2, March - April 2002

Auteurs
Department of Dermatology, Prefectural Gifu Hospital, 4-6-1 Noishiki, Gifu City, 500-8717, Japan.
  • Page(s) : 160-4
  • Année de parution : 2002

Pityriasis versicolor (PV) is a chronic, benign and asymptomatic skin disease, which affects predominantly young adults of both sexes. It is composed of two color types, one of which is brown (pigmented), the other white (achromatic) [1]. Recently, a red colored type, PV rubra, has been reported by Horiuchi [2], Ohtani et al. [3] and Katoh et al. [4]. However, there was no identification of species of Malassezia. In this study, we report [...]