Molecular identification of Coccidioides isolates from Mexican patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1111, Issue , 2007, Pages 326-335

  Castañón Olivares, Laura Rocío ^a   Güereña Elizalde, Diego ^b   González Martínez, Marisela Rocío ^c   Licea Navarro, Alexei Fedorovich ^d   González González, Gloria María ^e   Aroch Calderón, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Laboratorio de Soluciones Genéticas   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^e Medicina UANL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coccidioides immitis; Coccidioides posadasii; Molecular identification of Coccidioides

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEXOKINASE; PROLINE; SYNTHETASE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEXICO; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; FUNGI;

EID: 35348863655     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1406.047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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