Kodamaea ohmeri isolates from patients in a University Hospital: Identification, antifungal susceptibility, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1005-1010

  Lee, Jin Sol ^a   Shin, Jong Hee ^a   Kim, Mi Na ^b   Jung, Sook In ^a   Park, Kyung Hwa ^a   Cho, Duck ^a   Kee, Seung Jung ^a   Shin, Myung Geun ^a   Suh, Soon Pal ^a   Ryang, Dong Wook ^a  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; ITRACONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA HAEMULONII; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGUS ISOLATION; KARYOTYPING; KODAMAEA OHMERI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGAR; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOSES; PICHIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA HAEMULONII; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; KODAMAEA OHMERI;

EID: 33947244628     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02264-06     Document Type: Article

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