Real-time PCR assay for detection and differentiation of Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii from culture and clinical specimens

• Sudha Chaturvedi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Sudha.Chaturvedi@health.ny.gov (SC); Vishnu.Chaturvedi@health.ny.gov (VC)

  Affiliations Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0906-8426

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• Tanya R. Victor,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9542-4628

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• Anuradha Marathe,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Ketevan Sidamonidze,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Current address: Lugar Center for Public Health Research, 0184 Tbilisi, Georgia.

  Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Kelly L. Crucillo,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Coccidioidomycosis Serology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, California, United States of America

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• Vishnu Chaturvedi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Sudha.Chaturvedi@health.ny.gov (SC); Vishnu.Chaturvedi@health.ny.gov (VC)

  Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-9676

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