Mitochondrial telomeres as molecular markers for identification of the opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida parapsilosis.
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SUBMITTER: Nosek J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC140342 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Apr
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Mitochondrial telomeres as molecular markers for identification of the opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida parapsilosis.
Nosek Jozef J Tomáska L'ubomír L Rycovská Adriana A Fukuhara Hiroshi H
Journal of clinical microbiology 20020401 4
Recent studies have demonstrated that a large number of organisms carry linear mitochondrial DNA molecules possessing specialized telomeric structures at their ends. Based on this specific structural feature of linear mitochondrial genomes, we have developed an approach for identification of the opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida parapsilosis. The strategy for identification of C. parapsilosis strains is based on PCR amplification of specific DNA sequences derived from the mitochondrial telome ...[more]
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