Comparison of different methods for extraction of mitochondrial DNA from human pathogenic yeasts

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 122-125

  Yamada, Yokho ^b   Makimura, Koichi ^a   Merhendi, Hossain ^a   Ueda, Kumiko ^a   Nishiyama, Yayoi ^a   Yamaguchi, Hideyo ^a   Osumi, Masako ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BASIDIOMYCETES; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036703994     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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