Molecular epidemiology of Trichophyton tonsurans isolated in Japan using RFLP analysis of non-transcribed spacer regions of ribosomal RNA genes

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 188-192

  Mochizuki, Takashi ^a   Kawasaki, Masako ^a   Tanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Anzawa, Kazushi ^a   Ishizaki, Hiroshi ^a   Choi, Jong Soo ^b  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yeungnam University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CELL NUCLEUS; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS; WRESTLING;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 34548399460     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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