Genetic variants of Malassezia pachydermatis from canine skin: Body distribution and phospholipase activity

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 451-459

  Cafarchia, Claudia ^a   Gasser, Robin B ^b   Latrofa, Maria S ^a   Parisi, Antonio ^c   Campbell, Bronwyn E ^b   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase 2 gene (chs 2); First internal transcribed spacer (ITS 1); Malassezia pachydermatis; Phospholipase; Single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE 2; GENE PRODUCT; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PHOSPHOLIPASE; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHS 2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SKIN INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DOGS; GENOTYPE; MALASSEZIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SKIN;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS;

EID: 42549171958     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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