Detection of Coccidioides species in clinical specimens by real-time PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 173-178

  Binnicker, M J ^a   Buckwalter, S P ^a   Eisberner, J J ^a   Stewart, R A ^b   McCullough, A E ^b   Wohlfiel, S L ^a   Wengenack, N L ^a,c  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AMERICA;

COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PROBES; DNA, FUNGAL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COCCIDIOIDES; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FUNGI;

EID: 33846247836     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01776-06     Document Type: Article

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