27
Views
53
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Article

Detection of Candida albicans DNA in Serum by Polymerase Chain Reaction

, , , &
Pages 479-485 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

References

  • Dupont B. Clinical manifestations and management of candidosis in the compromised patient. Fungal infection in the compromised patient, D W Warnock, M D Richardson. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester 1991; 56–83
  • Weber D J, Rutala W A. Epidemiology of hospital-acquired fungal infections. Diagnosis and therapy of systemic fungal infections, K Holmberg, R Meyer. Raven Press, New York 1989; 1–24
  • Murray P R, Spizzo A W, Niles A C. Clinical comparison of the recoveries of bloodstream pathogens in septi-chek brain heart infusion broth with saponin, septi-chek tryptic soy broth, and the isolator lysis-centrifugation system. J Clin Microbiol 1991; 5: 901–905
  • Wilson M L, Davis T E, Mirrett S, Reynolds J, Fuller D, Allen S D, Flint K K, Koontz F, Barth Reller L. Controlled comparison of the BACTEC high-blood-volume fungal medium, BACTEC plus 26 aerobic blood culture bottle, and 10 milliliter Isolator blood culture system for detection of fungemia and bacteremia. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 4: 865–871
  • Telenti A, Roberts G D. Fungal blood cultures. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1989; 9: 825–831
  • Hopfer R L, Walden P, Setterquist S, Highsmith W E. Detection and differentiation of fungi in clinical specimens using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and restriction enzyme analysis. J Med Vet Mycol 1993; 31: 65–75
  • Crampin A C, Matthews R C. Application of the polymerase chain reaction to the diagnosis of candidosis by amplification of an HSP 90 gene fragment. J Med Microbiol 1993; 3: 233–238
  • Sugita Y, Kanaizuka I, Nakajima H, Ibe M, Yokota S, Matsuyama S. Detection of Candida albicans DNA in cerebrospinal fluid. J Med Vet Mycol 1993; 31: 343–358
  • Buchman T G, Rossier M, Merz W, Charache P. Detection of surgical pathogens by in vitro DNA amplification. Part I. Rapid identification of Candida albicans by in vitro amplifica- of a fungus-specific gene. Surgery 1990; 108: 338–347
  • Lai M H, Kirsch D R. Nucleotide sequence of cytochrome P450 L1A1 (lanosterol 14 α-demethylase) from Candida albicans. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17: 804
  • Jones J. Laboratory diagnosis of invasive candidiasis. Clin Microbiol Rev 1990; 1: 32–45
  • de Repentigny L. Serodiagnosis of candidiasis, aspergillosis, and cryptococcosis. Clin Infect Dis 1992; 14(Suppl 1)11–12
  • de Repentigny L, Reiss E. Current trends in immunodiagnosis of candidiasis and aspergillosis. Rev Infect Dis 1984; 6: 301–312
  • Rantala A, Niinikoski J, Lehtonen O P. Yeasts in blood cultures: impact of early therapy. Scand J Infect Dis 1989; 21: 557–561
  • Spreadbury C, Holden D, Aufauvre-Brown A, Bainbridge B, Cohen J. Detection of Aspergillus fumigatus by polymerase chain reaction. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 3: 615–621
  • Wakefield A E, Pixley F J, Banerji S, Sinclair K, Miller R F, Moxon E R, Hopkin J M. Detection of Pneumocystis carinii with DNA amplification. Lancet 1990; 336: 451–453
  • Forbes B A, Hicks K ES. Direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory specimens in a clinical laboratory by polymerase chain reaction. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 7: 1688–1694
  • Lowe T, Sharefkin J, Yang S Q, Dieffenbach C W. A computer program for selection of oligonucleotide primers for polymerase chain reaction. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18: 1757–1761

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.