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Diversity of commensal yeasts within and among healthy hosts.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 May 2002
Kam Angela P, Xu Jianping
Abstract excerpt
We sampled commensal yeasts from three body sites of 24 healthy individuals to examine the patterns of commensal yeast species distribution and strain relatedness within and among individuals. To examine the short-term dynamics, each individual was sampled three times every 35-40 days at each of three body sites: mouth, fingernail, and toenail. The hosts included six genealogically unrelated individuals and 18...
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