Diversity and origins of Indian multi-triazole resistant strains of Aspergillus fumigatus

Mycoses

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 450-466

  Chang, Howard ^a   Ashu, Eta ^a   Sharma, Cheshta ^b   Kathuria, Shallu ^b   Chowdhary, Anuradha ^b   Xu, Jianping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; India; mating type; multi triazole resistance; Multilocus sequence typing; PCR fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

PYRROLE; TRIAZOLE;

ALLELE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INDIA; MATING; MATING TYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION;

EID: 84973659375     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12494     Document Type: Article

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