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Genetic diversity among clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus.
Infection and immunity - 1 Aug 1997
Debeaupuis J P, Sarfati J, Chazalet V, Latgé J P
Abstract excerpt
To determine if cases of invasive aspergillosis (IA) were caused by strains of Aspergillus fumigatus with unique characteristics, strains from immunosuppressed patients with IA were compared to strains obtained from sputa of patients with cystic fibrosis and to strains from the environment. An extremely high genomic diversity was observed among the 879 strains typed by Southern blotting with a...
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