Abstract: DNA probes for diagnosing infectious diseases involving Escherichia coli, Klebsielkli pneunmoniae or Enterobacter cloacae and methods of using such probes are provided.
Abstract: The invention provides a probe useful for rapidly detecting and identifying fungi causative of infectious diseases by digesting completely a DNA extracted from a fungus, e.g., Candida albicans, with EcoRI, inserting the same into an appropriate cloning vector, and selecting a probe containing DNA fragments unique to each fungus. The invention also provides a standard sequence suitable for making reference to a genomic DNA contained in a clinical specimen by elucidating the base sequence of the probe thus selected.