Detection of Candida albicans in blood by PCR in a rabbit animal model of disseminated candidiasis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 177-183

  Polanco, A ^a   Mellado, E ^b   Castilla, C ^c   Rodriguez Tudela, J L ^b  

^a SA Paseo Castellana ^*  (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c Fundacion Jimenez Diaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SERODIAGNOSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRIFUGATION; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGEMIA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033061328     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00036-X     Document Type: Article

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