Efficient identification of clinically relevant Candida yeast species by use of an assay combining panfungal loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification with hybridization to species-specific oligonucleotide probes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 713-720

  Inácio, João ^a   Flores, Orfeu ^b   Spencer Martins, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b STAB Vida Lda   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DRUG CHOICE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL DNA AMPLIFICATION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CANDIDA;

EID: 38949087234     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00514-07     Document Type: Article

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