Polycytella hominis is a mutated form of Scedosporium apiospermum

Medical Mycology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-39

  Borman, Andrew M ^a   Campbell, Colin K ^a   Linton, Christopher J ^a   Bridge, Paul ^b   Johnson, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mycetoma; Polycytella; Pseudallescheria; rDNA sequence; Scedosporium

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; GENOMIC DNA; ITRACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYCYTELLA HOMINIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SCEDOSPORIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII; SCEDOSPORIUM;

EID: 31344435045     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780500179678     Document Type: Article

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