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Translation elongation factor 1-α gene as a potential taxonomic and identification marker in dermatophytes.
Medical mycology - 1 Apr 2015
Mirhendi Hossein, Makimura Koichi, de Hoog G Sybren, Rezaei-Matehkolaei Ali, Najafzadeh Mohammad Javad, Umeda Yoshiko, Ahmadi Bahram
Abstract excerpt
Intra- and interspecies variations of the translation elongation factor 1-α (Tef-1α) gene were evaluated as a new identification marker in a wide range of dermatophytes, which included 167 strains of 30 species. An optimized pan-dermatophyte primer pair was designed, and the target was sequenced. Consensus sequences were used for multiple alignment and phylogenetic tree analysis and the levels of intra- and...
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