New PCR primer pairs specific for Candida dubliniensis and detection of the fungi from the Candida albicans clinical isolates in Japan

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 33-40

  Tamura, Miki ^a   Watanabe, Kayo ^a   Imai, Tamae ^a   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a   Nishimura, Kazuko ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. albicans; C. dubliniensis; Identification; New primers; PCR; RAPD pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; FUNGI;

EID: 0033985259     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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