Detection of Candida albicans mRNA in Archival Histopathology Samples by Reverse Transcription-PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2275-2278

  Beggs, Kyle T ^a   Holmes, Ann R ^a   Cannon, Richard D ^a   Rich, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PARAFFIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL DETECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; THRUSH;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; DNA PRIMERS; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE FIXATION; VIROLOGY;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 2442505745     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.5.2275-2278.2004     Document Type: Article

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