Demonstration of coccidioides immitis and coccidioides posadasii DNA in soil samples collected from dinosaur national monument, Utah

Medical Mycology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 610-617

  Johnson, Suzanne M ^a   Carlson, Erin L ^a   Fisher, Frederick S ^b   Pappagianis, Demosthenes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Coccidioides immitis; Coccidioides posadasii; DNA; ITS; PCR; polymorphism

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOIL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COCCIDIOIDES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UTAH;

EID: 84905053316     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mmy/myu004     Document Type: Article

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