Multilocus sequence typing confirms synonymy but highlights differences between Candida albicans and Candida stellatoidea

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 764-770

  Jacobsen, Mette D ^a   Boekhout, Teun ^b   Odds, Frank C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Candida stellatoidea; MLST

Indexed keywords

ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCYTOSINE; FUNGAL DNA; POLYENE; SUCROSE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA AFRICANA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA STELLATOIDEA; CLADISTICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOTORULA SINENSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TORULOPSIDALES;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AZOLES; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; ECHINOCANDINS; FLUCYTOSINE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CANDIDA AFRICANA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; MYCOTORULA;

EID: 49349090552     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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