Sahand IH, Moragues MD, Alhambra A, del Palacio A, Quindós G, Pontón J. Isolation of Issatchenkia occidentalis from the esophagus of a leukemic patient.
Rev Iberoam Micol 2007;
23:235-7. [PMID:
17388649 DOI:
10.1016/s1130-1406(06)70051-1]
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Abstract
Issatchenkia occidentalis was isolated from an esophageal biopsy of a young leukemic male patient who underwent bone marrow transplantation. At the time the specimen was collected, the patient was also suffering from esophageal herpetic lesions. The identification of the isolate was not possible by the use of the available commercial methods. Thus, its identification was done by PCR and DNA sequencing using panfungal primers.
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