Evidence far a general-purpose genotype in Candida albicans, highly prevalent in multiple geographical regions, patient types and types of infection

Microbiology

Volumn 145, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2405-2413

  Schmid, Jan ^a   Herd, Scott ^a   Hunter, Paul R ^b   Cannon, Richard D ^k   Yasin, M Salleh M ^k   Samad, Shamin ^k   Carr, Mary ^c   Parr, Dinah ^d   McKinney, Wendy ^d   Schousboe, Mona ^e   Harris, Ben ^e,i   Ikram, Rosemary ^f   Harris, Mike ^f   Restrepo, Angela ^g   Hoyos, Guillermo ^g   Singh, Kumar P ^h,j  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Public Health Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^e CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^f Medlab South   (New Zealand)

^g Corp para Invest Biologicas ^*  (Colombia)

^h CWM Hospital   (Fiji)

ⁱ Southern Community Laboratories   (New Zealand)

^j Universal Diagnostic Laboratories   (Australia)

^k NONE

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Author keywords

Ca3 fingerprinting; Candida albicans; Evolution; General purpose genotype; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 0032877706     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-9-2405     Document Type: Article

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