Use of polymorphic short and clustered coding-region microsatellites to distinguish strains of Candida albicans

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 73-79

  Field, Dawn ^a   Eggert, Lori ^a   Metzgar, Dave ^a   Rose, Randall ^a   Wills, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Clustered polymorphisms; Coding region microsatellites; Polymorphic microsatellite locus

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030248329     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-8244(96)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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