Article
Molecular typing of environmental and patient isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus from various hospital settings.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 1998
Chazalet V, Debeaupuis J P, Sarfati J, Lortholary J, Ribaud P, Shah P, Cornet M, Vu Thien H, Gluckman E, Brücker G, Latgé J P
Abstract excerpt
Fingerprinting of more than 700 clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus from four differential hospital settings was undertaken with a dispersed repeated DNA sequence. The analysis of the environmental isolates showed that the airborne A. fumigatus population is extremely div...
Topics
- Air Microbiology
- Aspergillosis
- Aspergillus fumigatus
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Fungal
- Genotype
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycological Typing Techniques