Rapid, sensitive and simple detection of candida deep mycosis by amplification of 18s ribosomal RNA gene; Comparison with assay of serum β-D-glucan level in clinical samples

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-128

  Sakai, Tetsuo ^a   Ikegami, Keiichi ^b   Yoshinaga, Emi ^a   Uesugi Hayakawa, Ruriko ^a   Wakizaka, Akira ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

18S ribosomal RNA; Candidiasis; Deep mycosis; Polymerase chain reaction; glucan

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN; BETA-1,3-GLUCAN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; GLUCAN; PRIMER DNA; RNA 18S;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BLOOD; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGEMIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BETA-GLUCANS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCANS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034136926     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.190.119     Document Type: Article

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