Analysis of inteins in the Candida parapsilosis complex for simple and accurate species identification

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2830-2836

  Prandini, Tâmara Heloísa Rocha ^a   Theodoro, Raquel Cordeiro ^b   Bruder Nascimento, Ariane C M O ^a   Scheel, Christina M ^c   Bagagli, Eduardo ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEIN; THREONINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA ORTHOPSILOSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THREONYL TRNA SYNTHETASE GENE; VACUOLAR ATPASE GENE;

CANDIDA; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; INTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES;

EID: 84882736473     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00981-13     Document Type: Article

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