Misidentification of Aspergillus nomius and Aspergillus tamarii as Aspergillus flavus: Characterization by internal transcribed spacer, β-tubulin, and calmodulin gene sequencing, metabolic fingerprinting, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1153-1160

  Tam, Emily W T ^a   Chen, Jonathan H K ^a   Lau, Eunice C L ^b   Ngan, Antonio H Y ^a   Fung, Kitty S C ^b   Lee, Kim Chung ^a   Lam, Ching Wan ^a   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,c,d,e   Lau, Susanna K P ^a,c,d,e   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d Research Centre of Infection and Immunology   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CALMODULIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; FUNGAL DNA; HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; TUBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NOMIUS; ASPERGILLUS TAMARII; BETA TUBULIN GENE; CALMODULIN GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERY ELDERLY; ANIMAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; CALMODULIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLOME; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TUBULIN;

EID: 84897131722     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03258-13     Document Type: Article

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