Development and evaluation of a real-time quantitative PCR assay for Aspergillus flavus

Mycologia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 683-690

  Cruz, Patricia ^a   Buttner, Mark P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical rapid methods; Detection; Fungi; Identification; PCR

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; DNA; FUNGUS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; OTIDES; PENICILLIUM;

FUNGAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149164954     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-022     Document Type: Article

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