Rapid diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis by nested PCR assay of sputum

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 449-451

  de Aguiar Cordeiro, Ross ^a,b,d   Nogueira Brilhante, R S ^a   Gadelha Rocha, M F ^a,b   Araujo Moura F E ^a   Pires De Camargo, Z ^c   Costa Sidrim, J J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ag2 PRA gene; Coccidioidomycosis; DNAextraction; Moleculardiagnosis; PCR; Sputum

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN 2; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; PROLINE RICH ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MATERIALS HANDLING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR;

COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; FUNGI;

EID: 33847770993     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01679.x     Document Type: Article

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