Malassezia furfur fingerprints as possible markers for human phylogeography

ISME Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 498-502

  Gaitanis, George ^a,b   Velegraki, Aristea ^a,b   Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^c   Kapsanaki Gotsi, Evangelia ^d   Zisova, Lilia ^e   Ran, Yuping ^f   Zhang, Hao ^f   Arsenis, George ^a   Bassukas, Ioannis D ^b   Faergemann, Jan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

^f SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eukaryote; Fingerprinting; Malassezia; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; BULGARIA; CHILD; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALASSEZIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; BULGARIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EUKARYOTA; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR;

EID: 63349112040     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2008.112     Document Type: Article

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