Molecular diagnostics in medical mycology

Brian L. Wickes; Nathan P. Wiederhold

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07556-5

Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Molecular diagnostics in medical mycology

Brian L. Wickes,
Nathan P. Wiederhold

Affiliations

Brian L. Wickes: The Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Nathan P. Wiederhold: The Fungus Testing Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07556-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Diagnosing fungal infections poses a number of unique problems. In this Review, Wickes and Wiederhold discuss molecular technologies used for fungal identification, and the problems associated with their development and implementation in today’s clinical microbiology laboratories.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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