Determining prognosis of systemic candidiasis infection in rats with the polymerase chain reaction method

• Main Authors: Jacinta Santhanam,, Siti Azura Zainon,, Chin, Chook Fung, Faezah Shekh Abdullah,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7339/1/01_Md_Yeaminhossain.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7339/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm/english_journals/vol39num2_2010/contentsVol39num2_2010.html

Candidiasis infections caused by the fungi Candida spp. are currently the most common systemic fungal infection in hospitalised patients. Diagnostic procedures involving culture or serological tests are either slow or lacking sensitivity and specificity. Thus polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays w...