The mycological and molecular study of Hortaea werneckii isolated from blood and splenic abscess

Mycopathologia

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 495-500

  Ng, K P ^a   Soo Hoo, T S ^a   Na, S L ^a   Tay, S T ^a   Hamimah, H ^a   Lim, P C ^b   Chong, P P ^b   Seow, H F ^b   Chavez, A J ^c   Messer, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukaemia; Dematiaceous fungi; Hortaea werneckii; Oligonucleotide primer; Tinea nigra

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DEUTEROMYCETES; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLEEN DISEASE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, ACUTE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLENIC DISEASES;

FUNGI; HORTAEA WERNECKII; TINEA NIGRA;

EID: 21144456440     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-005-1154-3     Document Type: Article

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