Rapid differentiation of cryptic species within Cryptococcus gattii by a duplex PCR assay

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3110-3112

  Feng, Xiaobo ^a   Fu, Xiaohua ^b   Ling, Bo ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Liao, Wanqing ^c   Pan, Weihua ^c   Yao, Zhirong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOSS; IGSF GENE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VACF GENE; VACR GENE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84882743709     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01455-13     Document Type: Article

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