Patent ID: 6242178
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: C12Q

Abstract:
A nucleic acid probe for a Candida species, wherein the probe selectively hybridizes with a nucleic acid molecule encoding a portion of the internal transcribed spacer 2 region, or a complementary sequence thereof, of a Candida species selected from the group consisting of C. haemulonii, C. kefyr, C. lambica, C. lusitaniae, C. norvegensis, C. norvegica, C. rugosa, C. utilis, C. viswanathii, C. zeylanoides, C. dubliniensis, and C. pelliculosa, wherein the nucleic acid probe selectively hybridizes to a species-specific portion of a Candida internal transcribed spacer region nucleic acid, and does not hybridize with other nucleic acids so as to prevent determination of an adequate positive hybridization to the species-specific portion of the Candida internal transcribed spacer region.