Molecular epidemiology of Candida albicans isolates from AIDS and cancer patients using a novel standardized CARE-2 DNA fingerprinting technique

Mycoses

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 371-383

  Lischewski, Axel ^a   Harmsen, D ^b   Wilms, K ^b   Baier, G ^b   Gunzer, U ^b   Klinker, H ^b   Wilhelm, M ^b   Schwinn, A ^b   Hacker, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Epidemiology; Fingerprint; Genotypic analyses

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHROMOSOME HIGH RESOLUTION BANDING ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; NEOPLASMS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032881869     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.1999.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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