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Epidemiological investigation for grouped cases of Trichosporon asahii using whole genome and IGS1 sequencing.
Mycoses - 1 Sept 2020
Desnos-Ollivier Marie, Maufrais Corinne, Pihet Marc, Aznar Christine, Dromer Françoise
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Trichosporonosis is a rare invasive infection in humans mainly due to Trichosporon asahii, and especially recovered from patients having haematological malignancy. Since 2012, IGS1 region sequencing is used as a genotyping method to distinguish isolates, with high frequency of one haplotype worldwide and a geographic specificity for some haplotypes. OBJECTIVES: We compared the IGS1 genotyping method...
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