Development of two species-specific fingerprinting probes for broad computer-assisted epidemiological studies of Candida tropicalis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3063-3071

  Joly, Sophie ^a   Pujol, Claude ^a   Schröppel, Klaus ^b   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 0030001558     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.12.3063-3071.1996     Document Type: Article

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