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Although accurate and rapid diagnosis of fusariosis is now required, morphological similarities among molds make it difficult to histologically differentiate Fusarium spp. from other molds. In this chapter, we present our in situ hybridization (ISH) technique as a valuable tool to identify Fusarium spp. and emphasize the usefulness of the technique.
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This work was supported by the Health Science Research Grants for Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (H22-Shinkou-Ippan-8 and H23-Shinkou-Ippan-018), Measures for Intractable Diseases (H20-Nannchi-Ippann-35) from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, a grant from the Strategic Basis on Research Grounds for Non-governmental Schools at Heisei 20th from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to KS, a grant from the Strategic Research Foundation Grant-aided Project for Private schools at Heisei 23rd from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to KS, 2011-2015, a Toho Universi ty project grant #23-19, 21, and 28 and #24-11, 16, 27, and 28, Yokohama Foundation for Advancement of Medical Science grant to YO and MS, Dr Yanase’s grant of Toho University Medical School to YO, and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (KAKENHI, #24790364) to YO.
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Okubo, Y. et al. (2013). Applied Gene Histopathology: Identification of Fusarium Species in FFPE Tissue Sections by In Situ Hybridization. In: O'Connor, L., Glynn, B. (eds) Fungal Diagnostics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 968. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-257-5_10
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