Detection of Cryptococcus neoformans DNA in tissue samples by nested and real-time PCR assays

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 461-469

  Bialek, Ralf ^a   Weiss, Michael ^a   Bekure Nemariam, Kubrom ^a   Najvar, Laura K ^a   Alberdi, Maria B ^a   Graybill, John R ^a   Reischl, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL DNA; POSACONAZOLE; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; TRICHOSPORON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036129936     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.2.461-469.2002     Document Type: Article

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