Mixed Candida albicans strain populations in colonized and infected mucosal tissues

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1334-1338

  Jacobsen, Mette D ^a   Duncan, Amanda D ^a   Bain, Judith ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth M ^b   Naglik, Julian R ^c   Shaw, Duncan J ^a   Gow, Neil A R ^a   Odds, Frank C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Epidemiology; MLST; Strain typing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION RESEARCH;

ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CARRIER STATE; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; OROPHARYNX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 55349132748     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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