Universal fungus-specific primer systems and group-specific hybridization oligonucleotides for 18S rDNA

Mycoses

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 25-30

  Kappe, R ^a,b   Fauser, Christina ^a   Okeke, C N ^a   Maiwald, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Hygiene Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Fungus specific primers; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; FUNGUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0029897114     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1996.tb00079.x     Document Type: Article

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