High-throughput identification and quantification of Candida species using high resolution derivative melt analysis of panfungal amplicons.

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Published in J Mol Diagn on December 10, 2009

Authors

Tasneem Mandviwala1, Rupali Shinde, Apoorv Kalra, Jack D Sobel, Robert A Akins

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

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