Soil isolation and molecular identification of Coccidioides immitis

Mycologia

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 406-410

  Greene, Deborah R ^a   Koenig, Gina ^b   Fisher, Matthew C ^a   Taylor, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungi; ITS; Microsatellites; Molecular typing; Onygenales; Ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007446284     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3761498     Document Type: Article

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