Molecular typing of Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. interdigitale isolated in a university hospital in Japan based on the non-transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal RNA gene

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 431-440

  Wakasa, Asako ^a   Anzawa, Kazushi ^a   Kawasaki, Masako ^a   Mochizuki, Takashi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Molecular typing; Non transcribed spacer regions; Polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism; Ribosomal RNA gene; Trichophyton mentagrophytes var. interdigitale

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; NONTRANSCRIBED SPACER REGION; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; CLASSIFICATION; DERMATOMYCOSES; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; RNA GENE; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951797946     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2010.00809.x     Document Type: Article

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