Detection of seven Candida species using the Light-Cycler system

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 229-238

  White, P Lewis ^a   Shetty, Anjali ^a   Barnes, Rosemary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KEFYR; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA, FUNGAL; LIGHT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037341638     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05049-0     Document Type: Article

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