Rapid Real-Time PCR Assay for Culture and Tissue Identification of Geomyces destructans: The Etiologic Agent of Bat Geomycosis (White Nose Syndrome)

Mycopathologia

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-256

  Chaturvedi, Sudha ^a,b   Rudd, Robert J ^a   Davis, April ^a   Victor, Tanya R ^a   Li, Xiaojiang ^a   Appler, Kim A ^a   Rajkumar, Sunanda S ^a   Chaturvedi, Vishnu ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomyces destructans; Geomycosis; Real time PCR; White nose syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALPHA L RHAMNOSIDASE; ALPHA-L-RHAMNOSIDASE; GLYCOSIDASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; EVALUATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NOSE; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MYCOLOGY; MYCOSES; NOSE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; GEOMYCES; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS;

EID: 80052431101     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-011-9435-5     Document Type: Article

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