Significant variation of filamentation phenotypes in clinical Candida albicans strains.

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Introduction: Candida albicans is an opportunistic human pathogen that typically resides as part of the microbiome in the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts of a large portion of the human population. This fungus lacks a true sexual cycle and evolves in a largely clonal pattern. The ability to cause disease is consistent across the species as strains causing systemic infections appear across the known C....

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