Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 11

Isolation and identification of dermatophytes with biomaterials such as primers for early detection

  • Author:
  • Kanishka Uthansingh1, Manoj Kumar Sahu2,, Pradeep Mallick3, Debasmita Behera4, Mahesh Ch Sahu5
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 2189 to 2193

1PhD Research Scholar, Department of Gastroenterology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Demmed to be University

2Professor & Head Department of Gastroenterology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Demmed to be University

3Junior Biostatistian, Department of Gastroenterology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Demmed to be University

4Associate Professor, Department of Skin and VD, IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Demmed to be University

5Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Research Laboratory, IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Demmed to be University

*Corresponding Author: Manoj Kumar Sahu, DM Department of Gastroenterology, IMS & SUM Hospital, Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, Pin-751003, Email: manojsahu@soa.ac.in

Online published on 13 December, 2018.

Abstract

Dermatophyte species are normal keratinophilic organisms in charge of superficial contaminations called dermatophytosis or ringworm and made out of three anamorphic genera, Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton. Using a few reciprocal atomic techniques, dermatophytes have been appeared to comprise a homogeneous gathering of species with low hereditary decent variety standing out from high phenotypic heterogeneity. Our aim of the study was to identify dermatophytes with biomaterial such as primers for early detection. Till now much of the studies has been done through polymerase chain reaction and few advance techniques been used. In contrast, in all but a few cases distinction between dermatophyte strains has failed, which has hindered the development of molecular-based epidemiological investigations. Here we focused on specific primers to detect dermatophytes at the earliest.

Keywords

Dermatophytes, Primers, PCR, Nucleotides, DNA sequence