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Molecular and phenotypic identification of the yeast pathogen Candida dubliniensis.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jan 2000
Kurzai O, Korting H C, Harmsen D, Bautsch W, Molitor M, Frosch M, Mühlschlegel F A
Abstract excerpt
Candida dubliniensis is an emerging yeast pathogen generally misclassified as Candida albicans by standard diagnostic procedures. This study examined the efficiency of molecular identification, based on a discriminative PCR test, in a prospective study on the prevalence of C. dubliniensis among 103 oropharyngeal isolates from HIV-infected individuals or transplant recipients, and 30 vaginal isolates. All of the...
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