Seminested PCR for diagnosis of candidemia: Comparison with culture, antigen detection, and biochemical methods for species identification

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2483-2489

  Ahmad, Suhail ^a   Khan, Zaiba ^a   Mustafa, Abu S ^a   Khan, Zia U ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINALYSIS;

ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDIASIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; MYCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; FUNGI;

EID: 0036308984     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.7.2483-2489.2002     Document Type: Article

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