These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Real-time polymerase chain reaction detection of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in human samples.
    Author: Veron V, Simon S, Blanchet D, Aznar C.
    Journal: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis; 2009 Sep; 65(1):69-72. PubMed ID: 19679239.
    Abstract:
    We report a TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for diagnosing cryptococcosis. Specificity was tested with 33 fungal strains. The 7 clinical samples found positive by culture also tested positive by real-time PCR. No false negatives were found among the 94 clinical samples that were negative by culture for Cryptococcus spp. The sensitivity threshold was about 10 plasmid copies per assay.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]