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Emergence of Aureobasidium pullulans as human fungal pathogen and molecular assay for future medical diagnosis.
Folia microbiologica - 1 Sept 2011
Chan Giek Far, Puad Mohamad Safwan Ahmad, Chin Chai Fung, Rashid Noor Aini Abdul
Abstract excerpt
Despite the great importance of Aureobasidium pullulans in biotechnology, the fungus had emerged as an opportunistic human pathogen, especially among immunocompromised patients. Clinical detection of this rare human fungal pathogen presently relies on morphology diagnosis which may be misleading. Thus, a sensitive and accurate quantitative molecular assay for A. pullulans remains lacking. In this study, we...
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