Increased culture recovery of zygomycetes under physiologic temperature conditions

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 208-212

  Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a,b   Chamilos, Georgios ^a   Hassan, Saad A ^a   Lewis, Russell E ^a,b   Albert, Nathaniel D ^a   Tarrand, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; In vitro growth; Physiology; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOMYCETES; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANAEROBIOSIS; HUMANS; MUCORALES; MYCOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 33847074258     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/7KU5XWURYM0151YN     Document Type: Article

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