Molecular identification and classification of Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex strains isolated from humans and selected animal species

Mycoses

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 119-126

  Ziółkowska, Grazyna ^a   Nowakiewicz, Aneta ^a   Gnat, Sebastian ^a   Trościańczyk, Aleksandra ^a   Zieba, Przemysław ^b   Majer Dziedzic, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b State Veterinary Laboratory   (Poland)

Author keywords

Intergenic transcribed spacer; Restriction analysis; Sequence analysis; Trichophyton mentagrophytes complex

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; FUNGAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOPHYTOSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FOX; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMPTOM; TRICHOPHYTON INTERDIGITALE; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; ANIMAL; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; BOVINE; CAT; CHINCHILLA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MINK; PHYLOGENY; RABBIT; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; CANIDAE; CAVIA; FUNGI; TRICHOPHYTON INTERDIGITALE;

ANIMALS; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; CATS; CATTLE; CHINCHILLA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FOXES; GENOTYPE; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MINK; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TINEA; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 84923105273     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12284     Document Type: Article

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