Occurrence and genetic variability of Candida parapsilosis sensu lato in Hungary

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 190-195

  Kocsubé, Sándor ^a   Tóth, Mónika ^a   Vágvölgyi, Csaba ^a   Dóczi, Ilona ^b   Pesti, Miklós ^c   Pócsi, István ^d   Szabó, Judit ^d   Varga, János ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUNGARY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS; HUNGARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33847235774     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46838-0     Document Type: Article

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