Fonsecaea nubica sp. nov, a new agent of human chromoblastomycosis revealed using molecular data

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 800-806

  Najafzadeh, M J ^a,b,c   Sun, J ^d   Vicente, V ^e   Xi, L ^d   Van Den Ende, A H G Gerrits ^a   De Hoog, G S ^a,b,f  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Chromoblastomycosis; Fonsecaea; Molecular phylogeny; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA TUBULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PROTEIN CDC42;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CHROMOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA NUBICA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACTINS; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ASCOMYCOTA; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN;

FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI;

EID: 77955878071     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693780903503081     Document Type: Article

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