An improved rapid quantitative detection and identification method for a wide range of fungi

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1037-1044

  Soeta, Nobutoshi ^a,b   Terashima, Masanori ^a,c   Gotoh, Mitsukazu ^a   Mori, Shuichi ^a   Nishiyama, Kyoko ^a   Ishioka, Ken ^a   Kaneko, Hisatoshi ^a   Suzutani, Tatsuo ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650738961     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.006858-0     Document Type: Article

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