Correlation between gastrointestinal fungi and varying degrees of chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 492-498

  Chen, Yu ^a   Chen, Zhenjing ^a   Guo, Renyong ^a   Chen, Nan ^a   Lu, Haifeng ^a   Huang, Shuai ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Li, Lanjuan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Culture independent method; Diversity; HBV infection; Intestinal fungi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGARICOMYCOTINA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS PENICILLIOIDES; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; ASTEROTREMELLA ALBIDA; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BASIDIOMYCETES; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA AUSTROMARINA; CANDIDA INTERMEDIA; CANDIDA MILLERI; CANDIDA SOLANI; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDA ZEYLANOIDES; CHAETOMIUM; CHAETOMIUM GLOBOSUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS FRAGICOLA; DISEASE COURSE; DORATOMYCES STEMONITIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUSARIUM; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPHOZYMA VARIABILIS; INTESTINE FLORA; IODOPHANUS CARNEUS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHIOCORDYCEPS CALOCEROIDES; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM FREII; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUCCINIOMYCOTINA; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PARADOXUS; SIMPLICILLIUM LANOSONIVEUM; SIMPLICILLIUM OBCLAVATUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VIRUS CARRIER; VOLUNTEER; WALLEMIA MURIAE; WALLEMIA SEBI; ZYGOMYCETES;

ADULT; AGED; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79960382472     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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