Microsatellite DNA identification and genotyping of Candida albicans from Lebanese clinical isolates

Mycopathologia

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 115-125

  Barada, Ghyda ^a   Basma, Raida ^a   Khalaf, Roy A ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Drug resistance; Microsatellite genotyping; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEBANON; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AZOLES; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 41049100817     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-008-9089-0     Document Type: Article

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