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Molecular typing of environmental and patient isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus from various hospital settings.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 1998
Chazalet V, Debeaupuis J P, Sarfati J, Lortholary J, Ribaud P, Shah P, Cornet M, Vu Thien H, Gluckman E, Brücker G, Latgé J P
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Fingerprinting of more than 700 clinical and environmental isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus from four differential hospital settings was undertaken with a dispersed repeated DNA sequence. The analysis of the environmental isolates showed that the airborne A. fumigatus population is extremely diverse, with 85% of the strains being represented as a single genotype isolated once. The remaining 15% of the strains...
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