Construction and use of PCR primers from a 70 kDa heat shock protein gene for identification of Candida albicans

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 329-336

  Arancia, S ^a   Sandini, S ^a   Cassone, A ^a   De Bernardis, F ^a   La Valle, R ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Epidemiology; Molecular diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0031259815     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcpr.1997.0125     Document Type: Article

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