Variability and molecular diagnostics of the neurotropic species Cladophialophora bantiana

Studies in Mycology

Volumn 1999, Issue 43, 1999, Pages 151-162

  Gerrits Van Den Ende, A H G ^a   De Hoog, G S ^a  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain disease; Diagnostics; Intron; ITS; Neurotropic fungi; RFLP; Sequencing; SSU; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346942399     PISSN: 01660616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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