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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2006

Identification of Histoplasma capsulatum, Blastomyces dermatitidis, and Coccidioides species by repetitive-sequence-based PCR.

June I Pounder, Dewey Hansen, Gail L Woods

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Coccidioides ecology and genomics.Medical mycology · 2019
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  6. Molecular epidemiology of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in China between 2007 and 2013 using multilocus sequence typing and the DiversiLab system.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2015
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  8. Molecular methods for pathogen and microbial community detection and characterization: current and potential application in diagnostic microbiology.Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases · 2012
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  10. Clinical and laboratory update on blastomycosis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2010
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  13. Design and evaluation of an AFLP molecular marker for the detection of Coccidioides spp. in biological samples.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

June I PounderAssociated Regional and University Pathologists, Inc., ARUP Laboratories, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, 500 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108. june.pounder@aruplab.com
Dewey Hansen
Gail L Woods

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The performance of repetitive-sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) using the DiversiLab system for identification of Coccidioides species, Blastomyces dermatitidis, and Histoplasma capsulatum was assessed by comparing data obtained to colony morphology and microscopic characteristics and to nucleic acid probe results. DNA from cultures of 23 Coccidioides, 24 B. dermatitidis, 24 H. capsulatum, 3 Arthrographis, and 2 Malbranchea isolates was extracted using a microbial DNA isolation kit as recommended by Bacterial Barcodes, Inc. Rep-PCR and probe results agreed for 97.2% of the dimorphic fungi when > or =85% similarity was used as the criterion for identification. Two H. capsulatum isolates were not identified, but no isolates were misidentified. From 43 of those cultures (15 Coccidioides, 14 B. dermatitidis, 14 H. capsulatum, 3 Arthrographis, and 2 Malbranchea), DNA also was extracted using an IDI lysis kit, a simpler method. Rep-PCR and probe results agreed for 97.7% of the dimorphic fungi when a criterion of > or =90% similarity was used for identification. One H. capsulatum isolate could not be identified; no isolates were misidentified. Using > or =85% similarity for identification resulted in one misidentification. These data suggest that the DiversiLab system can be used to identify Coccidioides and B. dermatitidis and, possibly, H. capsulatum isolates.

Indexed as

Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidBlastomycesCluster AnalysisCoccidioidesDNA FingerprintingDNA, FungalHistoplasmaHumansMicroscopyNucleic Acid HybridizationPolymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and SpecificityDNA, Fungal

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PMID16891521
PMCPMC1594654

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