Detection of a molecular biomarker for Zygomycetes by quantitative PCR assays of plasma, bronchoalveolar lavage, and lung tissue in a rabbit model of experimental pulmonary zygomycosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3690-3702

  Kasai, Miki ^a   Harrington, Susan M ^b,f   Francesconi, Andrea ^a   Petraitis, Vidmantas ^a,c   Petraitiene, Ruta ^a,c   Beveridge, Mara G ^a   Knudsen, Tena ^a   Milanovich, Jeffery ^a   Cotton, Margaret P ^a   Hughes, Johanna ^a   Schaufele, Robert L ^a   Sein, Tin ^a   Bacher, John ^d   Murray, Patrick R ^b   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^e   Walsh, Thomas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNNINGHAMELLA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MUCOR; MUCORMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOPUS; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; FUNGI; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

CUNNINGHAMELLA; MUCOR; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOPUS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 55849105864     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00917-08     Document Type: Article

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