Homozygosity at the Candida albicans MTL locus associated with azole resistance

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1061-1072

  Rustad, Tige R ^a   Stevens, David A ^a   Pfaller, Michael A ^a   White, Theodore C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Mating locus; Pathogenic fungi

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; PYRROLE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG RESISTANCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MARKER GENE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036232109     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-4-1061     Document Type: Article

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