Molecular detection of resistance to echinocandins

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1508, Issue , 2017, Pages 413-421

  Posteraro, Brunella ^a   Vella, Antonietta ^a   de Carolis, Elena ^a   Sanguinetti, Maurizio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antifungal drug resistance; Fungal pathogens; Gene sequencing; Molecular analysis; Quantitative real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ECHINOCANDIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; ECHINOCANDINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84995480892     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6515-1_23     Document Type: Chapter

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