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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 1999, p. 830-831, Vol. 37, No. 3
Hygiene Institute1 and
Department of General Pediatrics, Children's
Hospital,3 University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg,
Germany, and
Department of Botany, C. Charan Singh University,
Meerut, India2
Received 27 August 1998/Returned for modification 22 October
1998/Accepted 11 December 1998
When different preparations of Zymolyase were included in the
pretreatment protocol of a panfungal PCR assay using a primer system
for the 18S rRNA gene, an amplification product occurred in negative
controls. The amplified fragment showed 100.0% sequence identity to
the Saccharomyces sensu stricto complex and
Kluyveromyces lodderae. Lyticase, lysing enzymes, and
proteinase K appeared to be free from fungal DNA.
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Identification of Contaminating Fungal DNA Sequences in
Zymolyase
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