Real-time PCR assay for identification of Blastomyces dermatitidis in culture and in tissue

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1783-1786

  Sidamonidze, Ketevan ^a,e   Peck, Marcia K ^a,e   Perez, Michael ^a   Baumgardner, Dennis ^b   Smith, Gerald ^c   Chaturvedi, Vishnu ^a,d   Chaturvedi, Sudha ^a,d  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c AURORA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) of Georgia   (Georgia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BAD1 GENE; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HAPLOTYPE; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MYCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859946341     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00310-12     Document Type: Article

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