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Tinea corporis in an African migrant

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  1. Department of Infectious, Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, I.R.C.C.S. Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Via Sempreboni 5, 37024, Negrar di Valpolicella, Italy

    Anna Beltrame, Pierantonio Orza, Niccolò Ronzoni & Geraldo Badona Monteiro

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All the authors contributed to the clinical assessment, study conception, and data collection. The first draft of the manuscript was written by AB. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Beltrame, A., Orza, P., Ronzoni, N. et al. Tinea corporis in an African migrant. Infection 50, 1405–1408 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-022-01893-w

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