Phaeoacremonium parasiticum invasive infections and airway colonization characterized by agar block smear and ITS and β-tubulin gene sequencing

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 190-197

  To, Kelvin K W ^a,b   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Wu, Alan K L ^c   Lee, Rodney A ^c   Ngan, Antonio H Y ^a   Tsang, Chris C C ^a   Ling, Ian W H ^a   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Tubulin gene sequencing; Agar block smear; Invasive infections; ITS sequencing; Phaeoacremonium parasiticum

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BETA TUBULIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETOPOSIDE; GLIPIZIDE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ITRACONAZOLE; METFORMIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TIMENTIN; VINCRISTINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; BETA TUBULIN GENE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COLONY FORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONIDIUM; DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; ITS GENE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE PAIN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOULD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAEOACREMONIUM PARASITICUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNOVECTOMY; SYNOVITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ADULT; AGAR; AGED; ASCOMYCOTA; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN;

EID: 84866157784     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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