Evaluation of pan-dermatophyte nested PCR in diagnosis of onychomycosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3443-3445

  Garg, Jaya ^a,b   Tilak, Ragini ^a   Singh, Sanjay ^a   Gulati, Anil Kumar ^a   Garg, Atul ^a   Prakash, Pradyot ^a   Nath, Gopal ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; CHITIN SYNTHASE 1; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHS1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHYTE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NESTED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; HUMANS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTHRODERMATACEAE;

EID: 35348925454     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02367-06     Document Type: Article

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