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Microsatellite typing identifies the major clades of the human pathogen Candida albicans.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2010
Chávez-Galarza Julio, Pais Célia, Sampaio Paula
Abstract excerpt
Candida albicans population studies showed that this species could be divided into sub-groups of closely related strains, designated by clades. Since the emergence of microsatellite analysis as a PCR based method, this technique has been successfully used as a tool to differentiate C. albicans isolates but has never been tested regarding clustering of the five major clades. In this study we tested microsatellite...
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