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Cryptic species and azole resistance in the Aspergillus niger complex.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Oct 2011
Howard Susan J, Harrison Elizabeth, Bowyer Paul, Varga Janos, Denning David W
Abstract excerpt
Aspergillus niger is a common clinical isolate. Multiple species comprise the Aspergillus section Nigri and are separable using sequence data. The antifungal susceptibility of these cryptic species is not known. We determined the azole MICs of 50 black aspergilli, 45 from clinical specimens, using modified EUCAST (mEUCAST) and Etest methods. Phylogenetic trees were prepared using the internal transcribed spacer,...
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