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Molecular epidemiology of Blastomyces dermatitidis.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Feb 2000
McCullough M J, DiSalvo A F, Clemons K V, Park P, Stevens D A
Abstract excerpt
The inhalation of conidia of Blastomyces dermatitidis, a fungus found in soil, causes disease in humans and animals. We studied the genetic diversity of this pathogen by extracting DNA yeasts and analyzing them with a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based typing system we developed, which used restriction fragment analysis of amplicons from the regions between the rDNA repeats and allowed us to class isolates...
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