Typing of Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis: Species-related limitations of electrophoretic karyotyping and restriction endonuclease analysis of genomic DNA

Mycoses

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 1998, Pages 397-402

  Riederer, Kathleen ^a   Fozo, P ^a   Khatib, Riad ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Candida infection; Candida parapsilosis; Molecular typing

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; KARYOTYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS;

EID: 0032430162     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1998.tb00360.x     Document Type: Article

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