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White-opaque Switching in Different Mating Type-like Locus Gene Types of Clinical Candida albicans Isolates.
Chinese medical journal - 20 Nov 2016
Li Hou-Min, Shimizu-Imanishi Yumi, Tanaka Reiko, Li Ruo-Yu, Yaguchi Takashi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Candida albicans (C. albicans) can become a pathogen causing superficial as well as life-threatening systemic infections, especially in immunocompromised patients. Many phenotypic attributes contribute to its capacity to colonize human organs. In our study, 93 C. albicans isolates from patients of various candidiasis in a hospital of China were surveyed. We aimed to investigate the white-opaque (WO)...
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