A significant number of reported Absidia corymbifera (Lichtheimia corymbifera) infections are caused by Lichtheimia ramosa (syn. Lichtheimia hongkongensis): An emerging cause of mucormycosis

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b   Leung, Shui Yee ^a   Ngan, Antonio H Y ^a   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

fungus; identification; infection; ITS sequencing

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; FUNGAL RNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ABSIDIA; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; LICHTHEIMIA RAMOSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ABSIDIA; ABSIDIA CORYMBIFERA; FUNGI;

EID: 84878288458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2012.11     Document Type: Article

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