Mycological Typing Techniques
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Subject Areas on Research
- Analyses of pediatric isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from South Africa.
- Application of DNA typing methods and genetic analysis to epidemiology and taxonomy of Saccharomyces isolates.
- Complexities associated with the molecular and proteomic identification of Paecilomyces species in the clinical mycology laboratory.
- Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii.
- Controlled clinical laboratory comparison of BACTEC plus aerobic/F resin medium with BacT/Alert aerobic FAN medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia.
- Culture-based study of endophytes associated with rubber trees in Peru reveals a new class of Pezizomycotina: Xylonomycetes.
- Fungal diagnostics in pneumonia.
- Genetic diversity of the Cryptococcus species complex suggests that Cryptococcus gattii deserves to have varieties.
- Identification of clinical strains of Candida albicans by DNA fingerprinting with the polymerase chain reaction.
- Intergenic transcribed spacer PCR ribotyping for differentiation of Saccharomyces species and interspecific hybrids.
- Invasive mould infections: a multi-disciplinary update.
- Isolation, speciation and antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida isolates from various clinical specimens at a tertiary care hospital, Nepal.
- MTL genotypes, phenotypic switching, and susceptibility profiles of Candida parapsilosis species group compared to Lodderomyces elongisporus.
- Microsatellite analysis of genetic diversity among clinical and nonclinical Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates suggests heterozygote advantage in clinical environments.
- Molecular and genetic evidence for a tetrapolar mating system in the basidiomycetous yeast Kwoniella mangrovensis and two novel sibling species.
- Molecular typing of pathogenic fungi.
- Most environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (serotype A) are not lethal for mice.
- Nonmolecular methods for the diagnosis of respiratory fungal infections.
- Phylogeny and phenotypic characterization of pathogenic Cryptococcus species and closely related saprobic taxa in the Tremellales.
- Phylogeography of the Solanaceae-infecting Basidiomycota fungus Rhizoctonia solani AG-3 based on sequence analysis of two nuclear DNA loci.
- Rapid identification of pathogenic fungi directly from cultures by using multiplex PCR.
- Species and genotypic diversities and similarities of pathogenic yeasts colonizing women.
- The biology of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex.
- Towards a new classification of the Arthoniales (Ascomycota) based on a three-gene phylogeny focussing on the genus Opegrapha.