Title
Molecular identification of Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from patients with invasive aspergillosis
Other title
Identificación molecular de Aspergillus fumigatus aislados de pacientes con aspergilosis invasiva
Date Issued
01 March 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Villanueva F.
León S.R.
Guevara-Granados J.M.
Uribe A.
Cuadra A.
Sabogal I.
Publisher(s)
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Abstract
The objective of the study was to identify molecularly-isolated strains of Aspergillus from patients with invasive aspergillosis (IA); these strains were primarily typed as Aspergillus fumigatus sensu lato by conventional phenotypic methods. We worked with 20 strains from the mycology section of the Institute of Tropical Medicine “Daniel A. Carrión.” To obtain the fungal DNA, thermal shock, enzymatic treatment, and silica gel column techniques were used; and it was stored at -20°C to preserve it. The real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) procedure included fluorochrome-labeled primers, which amplified the specific sequences of A. fumigatus. Fluorescence was measured with the thermocycler at the end of the hybridization phase of each cycle. It was molecularly-identified that only 50% of the strains studied belong to the species Aspergillus fumigatus sensu stricto.
Start page
81
End page
86
Volume
36
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Medicina tropical
Biología celular, Microbiología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85066475356
PubMed ID
Source
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
ISSN of the container
17264634
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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