Candida albicans: genotyping methods and clade related phenotypic characteristics
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Candida albicans: genotyping methods and clade related phenotypic characteristics
Several molecular methods, such as Southern blotting hybridization, Multilocus Sequence Typing, and DNA microsatellite analysis, have been employed to genotype Candida albicans. The genotype analysis allows to group strains in clades, that is, a group composed of one ancestor and its descendants. These genotype studies demonstrate that clades distribution is influenced by geographic area as wel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1678-4405
DOI: 10.1590/s1517-83822010000400003