Keratitis Due to the Wood Saprobic Ascomycete, Auerswaldia lignicola (Family Botryosphaeriaceae), in a Carpenter in India

Mycopathologia

Volumn 176, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 463-466

  Ruban, Vasanthakumar Vasantha ^a   Kaliamurthy, Jayaraman ^b   Dineshkumar, Muniyandi ^a   Jesudasan, Christadoss Arul Nelson ^b   Geraldine, Pitchairaj ^a   Thomas, Philip Aloysius ^b  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b JOSEPH EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Auerswaldia; DNA sequencing; Keratitis; Lasiodiplodia; PCR

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; BOTRYOSPHAERIA RHODINA; BOTRYOSPHAERIACEAE; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LASIODIPLODIA;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KERATITIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; RNA GENE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; INDIA; KERATITIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84888840260     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-013-9713-5     Document Type: Article

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