PCR-restriction enzyme analysis for detection of Candida DNA in blood from febrile patients with hematological malignancies

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1871-1875

  Morace, Giulia ^a,b   Pagano, Livio ^a   Sanguinetti, Maurizio ^a   Posteraro, Brunella ^a   Mele, Luca ^a   Equitani, Francesco ^a   D'Amore, Giuseppina ^a   Leone, Giuseppe ^a   Fadda, Giovanni ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA;

EID: 0032905489     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1871-1875.1999     Document Type: Article

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