Molecular phylogenetics of strains morphologically identified as Fonsecaea pedrosoi from clinical specimens

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 255-260

  Yaguchi, Takashi ^a   Tanaka, Reiko ^a   Nishimura, Kazuko ^a   Udagawa, Shun Ichi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN FOOD RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chromoblastomycosis; Clinical isolates; Fonsecaea monophora; Fonsecaea pedrosoi; Molecular phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINA; EUROPE; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); JAPAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGI;

EID: 34250317801     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01383.x     Document Type: Article

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