Molecular typing for fungi - A critical review of the possibilities and limitations of currently and future methods

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 172-185

  Gil Lamaignere, C ^a   Roilides, E ^b   Hacker, J ^a   Müller, Frank Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Fungi; Molecular typing methods

Indexed keywords

DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

FUNGI;

EID: 0344643493     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00649.x     Document Type: Review

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