Identification of rare Candida species and other yeasts by polymerase chain reaction and slot blot hybridization

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 207-212

  Loeffler, Juergen ^a   Hebart, Holger ^a   Magga, Stella ^a   Schmidt, Diethard ^a   Klingspor, Lena ^b   Tollemar, Jan ^b   Schumacher, Ulrike ^c   Einsele, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA KEFYR; CANDIDA LUSITANIAE; CANDIDIASIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOSPORON CUTANEUM; YEAST;

CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 0034531512     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00201-7     Document Type: Article

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