Specific detection of fungal pathogens by 18S rRNA gene PCR in microbial keratitis

BMC Ophthalmology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Embong, Zunaina ^a   Wan Hitam, Wan Hazabbah ^a   Yean, Chan Yean ^a   Rashid, Nur Haslindawaty Abdul ^b   Kamarudin, Balqis ^c   Abidin, Siti Khaironi Zainal ^d   Osman, Sabariah ^a   Zainuddin, Zainul F ^b   Ravichandran, Manickam ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA; FUNGAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; FUNGAL EYE INFECTION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA, FUNGAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44949240777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-8-7     Document Type: Article

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