The utility of Coccidioides polymerase chain reaction testing in the clinical setting

Mycopathologia

Volumn 170, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 345-351

  Vucicevic, Darko ^a   Blair, Janis E ^a   Binnicker, Matthew J ^b   McCullough, Ann E ^a   Kusne, Shimon ^a   Vikram, Holenarasipur R ^a   Parish, James M ^a   Wengenack, Nancy L ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidioides sp.; Coccidioidomycosis; Culture; Diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; HUMANS; MYCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COCCIDIOIDES; SPHERULES;

EID: 78049322326     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-010-9327-0     Document Type: Article

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