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SUBMITTER: Arastehfar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5987591 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arastehfar Amir A Fang Wenjie W Badali Hamid H Vaezi Afsane A Jiang Weiwei W Liao Wanqing W Pan Weihua W Hagen Ferry F Boekhout Teun T
Frontiers in microbiology 20180529
<i>Candida auris</i>, <i>C. haemulonii</i>, <i>C. duobushaemulonii</i>, and <i>C. pseudohaemulonii</i> are closely related and highly multidrug resistant yeast pathogens. The high cost and low accuracy of current diagnostics may underestimate their prevalence, especially in medical resource-limited regions. In this study, we used 172 <i>C. auris</i> stains and its relatives and 192 other fungal strains to establish and validate a novel multiplex end-point PCR. A prospective and a retrospective c ...[more]