Detection and identification of Candida species in experimentally infected tissue and human blood by rRNA-specific fluorescent in situ hybridization

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2943-2948

  Lischewski, Axel ^a   Kretschmar, Marianne ^b   Hof, Herbert ^b   Amann, Rudolf ^c   Hacker, Jörg ^a   Morschhäuser, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANDIDA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS;

EID: 0030777323     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.11.2943-2948.1997     Document Type: Article

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