Species recognition and clinical relevance of the zygomycetous genus Lichtheimia (syn. Absidia pro parte, Mycocladus)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2154-2170

  Alastruey Izquierdo, Ana ^a   Hoffmann, Kerstin ^b   De Hoog, G Sybren ^c   Rodriguez Tudela, Juan Luis ^a   Voigt, Kerstin ^b   Bibashi, Evangelia ^d   Walther, Grit ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA TUBULIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MOLECULAR MARKER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSLATION ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSIDIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENEALOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; ILLEGITIMACY; LICHTHEIMIA BLAKESLEEANA; LICHTHEIMIA HYALOSPORA; LICHTHEIMIA ORNATA; LICHTHEIMIA RAMOSA; LICHTHEIMIA SPHEROCYSTIS; MATING; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOMYCETES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCORALES; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ABSIDIA; ABSIDIA CORYMBIFERA; FUNGI; SPHAEROCYSTIS;

EID: 77952895134     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01744-09     Document Type: Article

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