Comparison of ITS and IGS1 regions for strain typing of clinical and non-clinical isolates of Pichia anomala

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-123

  Sutar, Rajeshwari ^a   David, Joseph K ^b   Ganesan, K ^a   Ghosh, Anup K ^b,c   Singhi, Sunit ^b   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^b   Bachhawat, Anand K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 5.8S; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD CONTROL; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA; PICHIA ANOMALA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOSES; PICHIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1242351685     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05436-0     Document Type: Article

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