Genomics and Proteomics as Compared to Conventional Phenotypic Approaches for the Identification of the Agents of Invasive Fungal Infections Topical Collection on Advances in Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections

Current Fungal Infection Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-243

  Borman, Andrew M ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Diagnostic challenges; Invasive fungal infections; MALDI TOF; Microscopy; PCR assays

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CLADOPHIALOPHORA; CLADOPHIALOPHORA BANTIANA; COPRINOPSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; MICROSPHAEROPSIS ARUNDINIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIM PICEUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PHAEOSPHAERIA; PHENOTYPE; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOMICS; RASAMSONIA ARGILLACEA; RHINOCLADIELLA MACKENZEI; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SCEDOSPORIUM AURANTIACUM; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; YEAST;

EID: 84883458788     PISSN: 19363761     EISSN: 1936377X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12281-013-0149-7     Document Type: Article

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