Are molecular techniques useful in aspergillosis surveillance and control?;¿Tienen utilidad las técnicas moleculares para la vigilancia y el control de la aspergilosis?

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 469-471

  Cuenca Estrella, Manuel ^a   Mellado, Emilia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLICATION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TECHNIQUE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345303711     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13052328     Document Type: Editorial

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