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Diseases Caused by Vegetable Parasites

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A Handbook of Diseases of the Skin

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The dermatophytes are a well-defined group of fungi which produce only a superficial infection of the skin and its appendages. (In contrast to another group of fungi which penetrate the deeper structures where they disseminate and cause the systemic mycoses).

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    Herbert O. Mackey F.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I., D.P.H. (Univ. Dub.), L.M., F.R.I.A.M. (Fellow of St. John’s Hospital Dermatological Society)

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  1. Herbert O. Mackey F.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I., D.P.H. (Univ. Dub.), L.M., F.R.I.A.M.
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© 1968 John P. Mackey

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Mackey, H.O. (1968). Diseases Caused by Vegetable Parasites. In: A Handbook of Diseases of the Skin. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15275-9_12

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