Article
Application of biotyping and DNA typing of Candida albicans to the epidemiology of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Aug 1993
Mercure S, Poirier S, Lemay G, Auger P, Montplaisir S, de Repentigny L
Abstract excerpt
One-hundred and five Candida albicans isolates from various anatomic sites of 28 patients, obtained at the onset of two consecutive episodes of well-documented recurrent vulvovaginitis, were typed by methods relying on physiologic or genomic markers. The isolates represented a wide variety of typ...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Blotting, Southern
- Candida albicans
- Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal
- DNA, Fungal
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mycological Typing Techniques
- Organ Specificity
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Recurrence