Systematic Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequence Analysis for Identification of Clinical Mold Isolates in Diagnostic Mycology: a 5-Year Study

DE Ciardo, K. Lucke, A. Imhof, GV Bloemberg, and EC Böttger. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Aug. 2010, P. 2809-2813. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Citation: “... The SmartGene ITS database is a curated database which is designed to include most of the clinically relevant fungi and which contains some ITS sequences that are missing in GenBank...Use of the SmartGene validated ITS database resulted in a higher percentage of identification at species level than that obtained using the GenBank database ...”