Molecular detection of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in road-killed wild animals

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-40

  Richini Pereira, Virgínia Bodeläo ^a   Bosco, Sandra De Moraes Gimenes ^a   Griese, Juliana ^a   Theodoro, Raquel Cordeiro ^a   Macoris, Severino Assis Da Graça ^a   Da Silva, Reinaldo José ^a   Barrozo, Lígia ^b   Tavares, Patrícia Morais E Silva ^c   Zancopé Oliveira, Rosely Maria ^c   Bagagli, Eduardo ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Paracoccidiodomycosis; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Road killed animals

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FOX; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUINEA PIG; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORCUPINE; RACCOON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SECTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BRAZIL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, FUNGAL; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; CAVIA; CAVIA APEREA; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; DASYPUS SEPTEMCINCTUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS ALBIVENTRIS; DUSICYON THOUS; EIRA BARBARA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PROCYON; PROCYON CANCRIVORUS; SPHIGGURUS SPINOSUS;

EID: 39749174347     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701553002     Document Type: Article

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