Discrimination among the clinical isolates of Candida albicans by amplification of the repetitive sequences, alts

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-230

  Doi, Matsuko ^a,b   Chibana, Hiroji ^a,c   Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tanaka, Kenji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; PCR; Repetitive sequence

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0031923679     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1998.tb02275.x     Document Type: Article

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