Identifying the emerging human pathogen Scedosporium prolificans by using a species-specific monoclonal antibody that binds to the melanin biosynthetic enzyme tetrahydroxynaphthalene reductase

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1023-1038

  Thornton, Christopher R ^a   Ryder, Lauren S ^a   Le Cocq, Kate ^a   Soanes, Darren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCEDOSPORIUM PROLIFICANS;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MELANIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SPACER DNA; TETRAHYDROXYNAPHTHALENE REDUCTASE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEAR DROWNING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SCEDOSPORIUM;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; DNA, INTERGENIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUNG; MELANINS; NEAR DROWNING; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; SCEDOSPORIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84926358870     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12470     Document Type: Article

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