Molecular Approaches in the Diagnosis of Dermatophytosis
Autor: | Toshio Kanbe |
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Rok vydání: | 2008 |
Předmět: |
Genetics
Genotype Morphological similarity Arthrodermataceae Veterinary (miscellaneous) Computational biology Molecular Technique Biology Diagnostic tools medicine.disease_cause Polymerase Chain Reaction Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology Mycological Typing Techniques Dermatophyte medicine Dermatomycoses Humans Species identification DNA Fungal Agronomy and Crop Science Genotyping Polymorphism Restriction Fragment Length |
Zdroj: | Mycopathologia. 166:307-317 |
ISSN: | 1573-0832 0301-486X |
Popis: | Dermatophytosis is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world and can be caused by several dermatophyte species. These species are closely related in genetic structure in spite of different phenotypic and ecological features. The morphological similarity, variability, and polymorphism of dermatophytes have meant that species identification for dermatophytes is time consuming and requires a significant degree of knowledge and technological expertise. Molecular biology-based techniques have solved problems concerning the morphology-based identification of dermatophytes and have improved our knowledge on the epidemiology of dermatophytosis. Further development of molecular diagnosis of dermatophytosis requires the investigation of additional molecular markers for diagnostic tools targeting multiple loci as well as the improvement of techniques. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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