Laboratory diagnosis of mucormycosis: Current status and future perspectives

Future Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 683-695

  Lackner, Michaela ^a   Caramalho, Rita ^a   Lass Flörl, Cornelia ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

internal transcribed spacer; matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight; molecular diagnosis; mucorales; mucormycosis; PCR; species identification

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; POSACONAZOLE; FUNGAL DNA;

ASPERGILLUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LICHTHEIMIA; LUNG INFECTION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCELIUM; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PERINEURAL INVASION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS; RHIZOPUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUCORALES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84903303685     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.14.23     Document Type: Review

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