Forty-eight-hour diagnosis of onychomycosis with subtyping of Trichophyton rubrum strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1419-1427

  Kardjeva, V ^a,f   Summerbell, R ^b   Kantardjiev, T ^a   Devliotou Panagiotidou, D ^c,d   Sotiriou, E ^d   Graser Y ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c State Hospital   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f Biosystems Ltd   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BULGARIA; DERMATOPHYTE; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DNA EXTRACTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MOULD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SCOPULARIOPSIS; SCOPULARIOPSIS BREVICAULIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM TYPE B;

DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOPHYTON;

ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ASCOMYCOTA; BULGARIA; FUNGI; SCOPULARIOPSIS; SCOPULARIOPSIS BREVICAULIS; TRICHOPHYTON INTERDIGITALE; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

EID: 33645902161     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.4.1419-1427.2006     Document Type: Article

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