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SUBMITTER: Cuomo CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5592916 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20170907 9
<i>Candida krusei</i> is a diploid, heterozygous yeast that is an opportunistic fungal pathogen in immunocompromised patients. This species also is utilized for fermenting cocoa beans during chocolate production. One major concern in the clinical setting is the innate resistance of this species to the most commonly used antifungal drug fluconazole. Here, we report a high-quality genome sequence and assembly for the first clinical isolate of <i>C. krusei</i>, strain 81-B-5, into 11 scaffolds gene ...[more]