PCR-based identification and strain typing of Pichia anomala using the ribosomal intergenic spacer region IGS1

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 185-189

  Bhardwaj, Sonia ^a   Sutar, Rajeshwari ^b   Bachhawat, Anand K ^b   Singhi, Sunit ^a   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PICHIA; PICHIA ANOMALA; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FUNGEMIA; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PICHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33847214247     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46790-0     Document Type: Article

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