Nucleotide polymorphisms associated with Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) regions of ocular isolates of Aspergillus flavus

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Bagyalakshmi, R ^a   Lily Therese, K ^a   Madhavan, H N ^a  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

ITS region; Nucleotide polymorphism; PCR RFLP

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

AMPLICON; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CORNEA; EYE INFECTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VITREOUS BODY;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORNEA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS;

EID: 33846161961     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2006.05.021     Document Type: Article

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