Novel approach to designing primers for identification and distinction of the human pathogenic fungi Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii by PCR amplification

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1859-1862

  Umeyama, Takashi ^a   Sano, Ayako ^b   Kamei, Katsuhiko ^b   Niimi, Masakazu ^a   Nishimura, Kazuko ^b   Uehara, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; PRIMER DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; FUNGI;

EID: 33646567125     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.5.1859-1862.2006     Document Type: Article

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