Comparison of quantitative real time PCR with Sequencing and ribosomal RNA-FISH for the identification of fungi in Formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue specimens

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rickerts, Volker ^a   Khot, Prasanna D ^b   Myerson, David ^b   Ko, Daisy L ^b   Lambrecht, Evelyn ^a   Fredricks, David N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; RIBOSOME RNA; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; FUNGAL RNA; RNA 28S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBEDDING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE NECROSIS; TYPE STRAIN; YEAST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; MYCOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; FUNGI; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGY; MYCOSES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79960661340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-202     Document Type: Article

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