Role of Cannomys badius as a natural animal host of Penicillium marneffei in India

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 5070-5075

  Gugnani, Harish ^a   Fisher, Matthew C ^b   Paliwal Johsi, Anubha ^a   Vanittanakom, Nongnuch ^c   Singh, Irabanta ^d   Yadav, Pratap Singh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b MANIPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANNOMYS BADIUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MULTILOCUS MICROSATELLITE TYPING; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIOSIS; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; YEAST;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; INDIA; MURIDAE; MYCOSES; PENICILLIUM; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CANNOMYS BADIUS; FUNGI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; RODENTIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 8644255080     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5070-5075.2004     Document Type: Article

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