Article
Monitoring spread of Malassezia infections in a neonatal intensive care unit by PCR-mediated genetic typing.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 1994
van Belkum A, Boekhout T, Bosboom R
Abstract excerpt
Malassezia furfur and Malassezia pachydermatis were isolated from newborn children and incubators in a neonatal intensive care unit. To assess whether persistence or frequent import of the organisms was the cause of the elevated incidence, genetic typing of the strains was performed by PCR-mediated DNA fingerprinting. By using PCR primers aimed at repeat consensus motifs, six different genotypes could be detected...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Basidiomycota
- Cross Infection
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction