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Assessment of Candida glabrata strain relatedness by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2007
Lin Chi-Yang, Chen Yee-Chun, Lo Hsiu-Jung, Chen Kuo-Wei, Li Shu-Ying
Abstract excerpt
In this study, 80 Candida glabrata isolates from intensive care unit and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients were typed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and mating type class determination. Among the 25 patients with multiple isolates, 19 patients (76%) contained multiple isolates exhibiting identical or highly related PFGE and MLST genotypes, which...
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