Detection of Blastomyces dermatitidis and Histoplasma capsulatum from culture isolates and clinical specimens by use of real-time PCR

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3204-3208

  Babady, N Esther ^a,b   Buckwalter, Seanne P ^a   Hall, Leslie ^a   Le Febre, Kara M ^a   Binnicker, Matthew J ^a   Wengenack, Nancy L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY FLUID; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; HISTIDINE KINASE GENE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL FLUID; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; TRACHEA MUCUS; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET;

BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (PHOSPHORYLATING); HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PROTEIN KINASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 80052212325     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00673-11     Document Type: Article

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