Differentiation of Trichophyton rubrum clinical isolates from Japanese and Chinese patients by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA and DNA sequence analysis of the non-transcribed spacer region of the rRNA gene

Journal of Dermatological Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-42

  Yang, Xiumin ^a,b,c   Sugita, Takashi ^c   Takashima, Masako ^d   Hiruma, Masataro ^e   Li, Ruoyu ^f   Sudo, Hajime ^a   Ogawa, Hideoki ^a   Ikeda, Shigaku ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^e JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY NERIMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

China; Japan; NTS; RAPD; rRNA gene; Trichophyton rubrum

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 60749117159     PISSN: 09231811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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