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Identification of dermatophyte species by 28S ribosomal DNA sequencing with a commercial kit
Béatrice Ninet1, Isabelle Jan, Olympia Bontems
1Division des Maladies Infectieuses, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire, 1211 Geneva.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 8, 2003
Abstract:
We have shown that dermatophyte species can be easily identified on the basis of a DNA sequence encoding a part of the large-subunit (LSU) rRNA (28S rRNA) by using the MicroSeq D2 LSU rRNA Fungal Sequencing Kit. Two taxa causing distinct dermatophytoses were clearly distinguished among isolates of the Trichophyton mentagrophytes species complex.
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