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Comparative phenotypic analysis of the major fungal pathogens Candida parapsilosis and Candida albicans.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Sept 2014
Holland Linda M, Schröder Markus S, Turner Siobhán A, Taff Heather, Andes David, Grózer Zsuzsanna, Gácser Attila, Ames Lauren, Haynes Ken, Higgins Desmond G, Butler Geraldine
Abstract excerpt
Candida parapsilosis and Candida albicans are human fungal pathogens that belong to the CTG clade in the Saccharomycotina. In contrast to C. albicans, relatively little is known about the virulence properties of C. parapsilosis, a pathogen particularly associated with infections of premature neonates. We describe here the construction of C. parapsilosis strains carrying double allele deletions of 100...
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