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SUBMITTER: Woo PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2168507 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Woo Patrick C Y PC Lau Candy C Y CC Chong Ken T K KT Tse Herman H Tsang Dominic N C DN Lee Rodney A RA Tse Cindy W S CW Que Tak-Lun TL Chung Liliane M W LM Ngan Antonio H Y AH Hui Wai-Ting WT Wong Samson S Y SS Lau Susanna K P SK Yuen Kwok-Yung KY
Journal of clinical microbiology 20070919 11
A highly reproducible and discriminative typing system is essential for better understanding of the epidemiology of Penicillium marneffei, the most important thermal dimorphic fungus causing respiratory, skin, and systemic mycosis in Southeast Asia. The sequences of 11 housekeeping genes were identical among 10 strains of P. marneffei, but those of MP1 and its 13 homologues, a novel superfamily of mannoproteins in the subdivision Pezizomycotina of Ascomycetes, mostly species of Penicillium and A ...[more]