Widespread occurrence of diverse human pathogenic types of the fungus Fusarium detected in plumbing drains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4264-4272

  Short, Dylan P G ^a   O'Donnell, Kerry ^b   Zhang, Ning ^c   Juba, Jean H ^a   Geiser, David M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATH; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM BISEPTATUM; FUSARIUM DELPHINOIDES; FUSARIUM LUNATUM; FUSARIUM NECTRIOIDES; FUSARIUM PENZIGII; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FUSARIUM; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; SANITARY ENGINEERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 82455174891     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05468-11     Document Type: Article

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