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Malassezia furfur fingerprints as possible markers for human phylogeography.
The ISME journal - 1 Apr 2009
Gaitanis George, Velegraki Aristea, Alexopoulos Evangelos C, Kapsanaki-Gotsi Evangelia, Zisova Lilia, Ran Yuping, Zhang Hao, Arsenis George, Bassukas Ioannis D, Faergemann Jan
Abstract excerpt
Malassezia furfur was the first species described within the cosmopolitan yeast genus Malassezia, which now comprises 13 species. Reported isolation rates of these species from healthy and diseased human skin show geographic variations. PCR-fingerprinting with the wild-type phage M13 primer (5'-GAGGGTGGCGGTTCT-3') was applied to investigate phylogeographic associations of M. furfur strains isolated from...
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