Highly sensitive quantitative PCR for the detection and differentiation of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and other Pseudogymnoascus species

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1726-1731

  Shuey, Megan M ^a   Drees, Kevin P ^a   Lindner, Daniel L ^b   Keim, Paul ^a   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Forest Mycology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84894044718     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02897-13     Document Type: Article

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