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Multilocus genotyping indicates that the ability to invade the bloodstream is widespread among Candida albicans isolates.

ABSTRACT: Multilocus genotyping was used to compare populations of Candida albicans from oral mucosa and blood. No significant differences in allele frequencies between the two samples were detected, and in a dendrogram of genotypic similarities, genotypes from both types of samples were finely interspersed. This is evidence for widespread distribution of invasive potential.

SUBMITTER: Luu LN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC87994 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Multilocus genotyping indicates that the ability to invade the bloodstream is widespread among Candida albicans isolates.

Luu L N LN Cowen L E LE Sirjusingh C C Kohn L M LM Anderson J B JB

Journal of clinical microbiology 20010401 4

Multilocus genotyping was used to compare populations of Candida albicans from oral mucosa and blood. No significant differences in allele frequencies between the two samples were detected, and in a dendrogram of genotypic similarities, genotypes from both types of samples were finely interspersed. This is evidence for widespread distribution of invasive potential. ...[more]

PMID: 11283111

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