Rapid identification of Fonsecaea by duplex polymerase chain reaction in isolates from patients with chromoblastomycosis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 267-272

  de Andrade, Tânia Sueli ^a   Cury, Arlete Emily ^a   de Castro, Luiz Guilherme Martins ^a   Hirata, Mario Hiroyuki ^a   Hirata, Rosario Dominguez Crespo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromoblastomycosis; Dematiaceous fungi; Duplex PCR; Fonsecaea pedrosoi; rDNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847309781     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.08.024     Document Type: Article

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