Identification of CARE-2-negative Candida albicans isolates as Candida dubliniensis

Mycoses

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 29-32

  Morschhauser J ^a   Ruhnke, M ^b   Michel, S ^b   Hacker, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Candida dubliniensis; CARE 2 fingerprinting; Phylogeny; rRNA

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SPOROGENESIS; YEAST;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS;

EID: 0033051961     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.1999.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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