A case of pulmonary aspergilloma molecular biological identification and typing of the isolates from antemortem sputa and autopsy fungus ball

Mycoses

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 149-152

  Sugita, C ^a   Makimura, K ^b   Murakami, A ^b   Murai, Y ^c   Yamaguchi, H ^b   Nagai, A ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

28S ribosomal DNA; Aspergilloma; Aspergillus fumigatus; Internal transcribed spacer 1; Molecular typing; PCR

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPUTUM;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 0038748239     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2003.00850.x     Document Type: Article

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