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Abstract
A clinical syndrome characterized by development, usually in infancy or childhood, of a chronic, often widespread candidiasis of skin, nails, and mucous membranes. It may be secondary to one of the immunodeficiency syndromes, inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, or associated with defects in cell-mediated immunity, endocrine disorders, dental stomatitis, or malignancy.
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- Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous
- Candidiases, Chronic Mucocutaneous
- Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiases
- Mucocutaneous Candidiases, Chronic
- Mucocutaneous Candidiasis, Chronic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
fungus dis of skin; do not bother to coord with CANDIDA or CANDIDA ALBICANS
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History Note
91(81); was see under CANDIDIASIS 1981-90
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Previous Indexing
- Candidiasis (1966-1980)
- Candidiasis, Cutaneous (1966-1980)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002178. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002178
- Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_mucocutaneous_candidiasis
- Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3705799