Use of random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and PCR- fingerprinting for genotyping a Scedosporium prolificans (inflatum) outbreak in four leukemic patients

Current Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 186-190

  Ruiz Díez, Beatriz ^a   Martín Díez, Francisco ^a   Rodríguez Tudela, Juan L ^a   Alvárez, María ^b   Martínez Suárez, Joaquín V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SPAIN;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MYCOSES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE;

FUNGI; SCEDOSPORIUM PROLIFICANS;

EID: 1842331568     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900236     Document Type: Article

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