Oral yeast flora and its ITS sequence diversity among a large cohort of medical students in Hainan, China

Mycopathologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 65-72

  Wang, Huamin ^a   Wang, Yin ^a   Chen, Jinglong ^a   Zhan, Zilong ^a   Li, Yinglin ^a   Xu, Jianping ^a,b  

^a HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Genetic diversity; ITS; Oral hygiene; Yeast carriage rate; Yeast diversity

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; MOUTH HYGIENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARRIER STATE; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH; ORAL HYGIENE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 34548010529     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9028-5     Document Type: Article

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