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. 1998 Jul;11(3):415–429. doi: 10.1128/cmr.11.3.415

TABLE 1.

Major causes of onychomycosis

Dermatophyte fungi
Epidermophyton floccosum
 Trichophyton mentagrophytes
 Trichophyton rubrum
Nondermatophyte fungi
 Acremonium
 Alternaria species
 Aspergillus species
 Botryodiplodia theobromae
 Fusarium species
 Onycochola canadensis
 Pyrenochaeta unguis-hominis
 Scytalidium dimidiatum scopulariopsis species
 Scytalidium hyalimum
Yeast
 Candida albicans