Discrimination of Scedosporium prolificans against Pseudallescheria boydii and Scedosporium apiospermum by semiautomated repetitive sequence-based PCR

Medical Mycology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 475-483

  Steinmann, J ^a   Schmidt, D ^a   Buer, J ^a   Rath, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

discrimination; Pseudallescheria Scedosporium; repetitive sequence based PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PETRIELLIDIUM BOYDII; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCE BASED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SCEDOSPORIUM PROLIFICANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SCEDOSPORIUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCEDOSPORIUM PROLIFICANS;

EID: 79959219863     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2010.539630     Document Type: Article

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