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The genotypes and virulence attributes of C. albicans isolates from oral leukoplakia.
Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal - 1 Nov 2021
Weerasekera M-M, Wijesinghe G-K, Sampath A, Dilhari A, Madhumal T, Dilrukshi R, Willaddara R, Karunathilaka S, Gunasekara C, Fernando N, Samaranayake L
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BACKGROUND: There is a debate as to whether some types of oral leucoplakias (OL) are caused by Candida species, and whether they contribute to the malignant transformation, associated with a minority of such lesions. As no detailed population analysis of yeast isolates from OL is available, we evaluated the virulence attributes, and genotypes of 35 C. albicans from OL, and compared their genotypes with 18 oral...
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