Environmental study of azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus with TR34/L98H mutations in the cyp51A gene in Iran

Mycoses

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 659-663

  Badali, Hamid ^a,b   Vaezi, Afsane ^a   Haghani, Iman ^a   Yazdanparast, Seyed A ^c   Hedayati, Mohammad T ^a,b   Mousavi, Bita ^a   Ansari, Saham ^a   Hagen, Ferry ^d   Meis, Jacques F ^d,e   Chowdhary, Anuradha ^f  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Azole resistance; cyp51A; Iran; Microsatellite typing; TR34 L98H

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE; STEROL 14ALPHA DEMETHYLASE; VORICONAZOLE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; IRAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; WILD TYPE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AZOLE RESISTANCE; CYP51A; IRAN; MICROSATELLITE TYPING; TR34/L98H;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AZOLES; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IRAN; MUTATION, MISSENSE;

EID: 84886295842     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12089     Document Type: Article

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