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Elevated phenotypic switching and drug resistance of Candida albicans from human immunodeficiency virus-positive individuals prior to first thrush episode.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 2000
Vargas K, Messer S A, Pfaller M, Lockhart S R, Stapleton J T, Hellstein J, Soll D R
Abstract excerpt
Strains of Candida albicans obtained from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive individuals prior to their first episode of oral thrush were already in a high-frequency mode of switching and were far more resistant to a number of antifungal drugs than commensal isolates from healthy individuals. Switching in these isolates also had profound effects both on susceptibility to antifungal drugs and on the...
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