Clinical spectrum of Exophiala infections and a novel Exophiala species, Exophiala hongkongensis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 260-267

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b   Ngan, Antonio H Y ^a   Tsang, Chris C C ^a   Ling, Ian W H ^a   Chan, Jasper F W ^a   Leung, Shui Yee ^a   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BETA ACTIN GENE; BETA TUBULIN GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA BERGERI; EXOPHIALA CANCERAE; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; EXOPHIALA HONGKONGENSIS; EXOPHIALA JEANSELMEI; EXOPHIALA LECANII CORNI; EXOPHIALA OLIGOSPERMA; EXOPHIALA XENOBIOTICA; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPB1 GENE;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EXOPHIALA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA BERGERI; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; EXOPHIALA JEANSELMEI; EXOPHIALA LECANII-CORNI; EXOPHIALA OLIGOSPERMA; FUNGI;

EID: 84871698281     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02336-12     Document Type: Article

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