PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Narutaki, Shoji
AU  - Takatori, Kosuke
AU  - Nishimura, Hidekatsu
AU  - Terashima, Hiroshi
AU  - Sasaki, Tsuguo
TI  - Identification of Fungi Based on the Nucleotide Sequence Homology of Their Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1) Region
DP  - 2002 Mar 01
TA  - PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology
PG  - 90--98
VI  - 56
IP  - 2
4099  - http://journal.pda.org/content/56/2/90.short
4100  - http://journal.pda.org/content/56/2/90.full
SO  - PDA J Pharm Sci Technol2002 Mar 01; 56
AB  - In this study, we examined the identification of fungi based on the sequence homology of the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) region. A newly designed primer pair could amplify the target region of all 42 strains tested. The PCR products were sequenced and the sequence homologies were searched by BLAST. It was demonstrated that this method is a reliable identification method at the genus or species level. At present, available databases are still insufficient to identify some fungi, but with the accumulation of further data in the ITS1 database, this method will be available for the identification of fungi.