Improving molecular detection of fungal DNA in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues: Comparison of five tissue DNA extraction methods using panfungal PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2147-2153

  Munoz Cadavid C ^a,c   Rudd, S ^a   Zaki, S R ^a   Patel, M ^a   Moser, S A ^b   Brandt, M E ^a   Gomez B L ^a,c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 3; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 4; PARAFFIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSIDIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPHYSOMYCES ELEGANS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BASIDIOBOLUS; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COKEROMYCES RECURVATUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIDIOBOLUS INCONGRUUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CUNNINGHAMELLA BERTHOLLETIAE; CUNNINGHAMELLA ELEGANS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MODIFICATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUCOR RAMOSISSIMUS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; RHIZOPUS AZYGOSPORUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORES; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; SAKSENAEA VASIFORMIS; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STAINING; SYNCEPHALASTRUM RACEMOSUM; TISSUE FIXATION;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE FIXATION;

FUNGI;

EID: 77952907574     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00459-10     Document Type: Article

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