Article
Application of DNA typing methods to Candida albicans epidemiology and correlations with phenotype.
Reviews of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Stevens D A, Odds F C, Scherer S
Abstract excerpt
The application of methods of Candida albicans DNA fragment length polymorphism analysis to correlations with phenotype and to questions in the epidemiology of Candida is shown. Twenty-nine different DNA types, in two broad classes, have thus far been demonstrated in 91 isolates. One type, IA2, w...
Topics
- Animals
- Candida albicans
- Candidiasis
- DNA, Fungal
- Disease Outbreaks
- Female
- Flucytosine
- Genitalia
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Restriction Mapping
- Serotyping
- Sexual Partners