Electrotransformation of the human pathogenic fungus Scedosporium prolificans mediated by repetitive rDNA sequences

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-282

  Ruiz Díez, Beatriz ^a   Martínez Suárez, Joaquín V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Pathogenic fungus; rDNA; Scedosporium

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ELECTROPORATION; FUNGUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TECHNIQUE;

CINNAMATES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPORATION; HUMANS; HYGROMYCIN B; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0345280800     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(99)00097-8     Document Type: Article

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