Accurate and practical identification of 20 Fusarium species by seven-locus sequence analysis and reverse line blot hybridization, and an in vitro antifungal susceptibility study

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1890-1898

  Wang, He ^a   Xiao, Meng ^a   Kong, Fanrong ^b   Chen, Sharon ^b   Dou, Hong Tao ^a   Sorrell, Tania ^b   Li, Ruo Yu ^c   Xu, Ying Chun ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ITRACONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; RIBOSOME RNA; VORICONAZOLE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CALMODULIN GENE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM EQUISETI; FUSARIUM INCARNATUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; HAPLOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL SMALL SUBUNIT RRNA GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE LINE BLOT HYBRIDIZATION; RNA POLYMERASE GENE; SEVEN LOCUS SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION ELONGATION FACTOR 1 ALPHA GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHINA; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FUSARIA; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM EQUISETI; FUSARIUM INCARNATUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 79955543073     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02415-10     Document Type: Article

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