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Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis spp. nov. to replace Candida parapsilosis groups II and III.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2005
Tavanti Arianna, Davidson Amanda D, Gow Neil A R, Maiden Martin C J, Odds Frank C
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Two new species, Candida orthopsilosis and C. metapsilosis, are proposed to replace the existing designations of C. parapsilosis groups II and III, respectively. The species C. parapsilosis is retained for group I isolates. Attempts to construct a multilocus sequence typing scheme to differentiate individual strains of C. parapsilosis instead revealed fixed DNA sequence differences between pairs of subgroups in...
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