The ins and outs of DNA fingerprinting the infectious fungi

DR Soll - Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY DNA fingerprinting methods have evolved as major tools in fungal
epidemiology. However, no single method has emerged as the method of choice, and some …

Genetics of Candida albicans, a Diploid Human Fungal Pathogen

SM Noble, AD Johnson - Annu. Rev. Genet., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Candida albicans is a species of fungus that typically resides in the gastrointestinal tracts of
humans and other warm-blooded animals. It is also the most common human fungal …

Candida albicans Strain Maintenance, Replacement, and Microvariation Demonstrated by Multilocus Sequence Typing

FC Odds, AD Davidson, MD Jacobsen… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
We typed 165 Candida albicans isolates from 44 different sources by multilocus sequence
typing (MLST) and ABC typing of rRNA genes and determined their homozygosity or …

Most frequent scenario for recurrent Candida vaginitis is strain maintenance with" substrain shuffling": demonstration by sequential DNA fingerprinting with probes …

SR Lockhart, BD Reed, CL Pierson… - Journal of clinical …, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
The following three basic scenarios have emerged for the genetic relatedness of strains in
recurrent vaginal candidiasis: strain maintenance without genetic variation, strain …

Genetic relatedness of Candida strains isolated from women with vaginal candidiasis in Malaysia

PP Chong, YL Lee, BC Tan… - Journal of medical …, 2003 - microbiologyresearch.org
The aims of this study were to compare the genetic relatedness of:(i) sequential and single
isolates of Candida strains from women with recurrent vaginal candidiasis (RVC); and (ii) …

Molecular methods for strain typing of Candida albicans: a review

F Saghrouni, J Ben Abdeljelil… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Candida albicans is one of the most medically important fungi because of its high frequency
as a commensal and pathogenic microorganism causing superficial as well as invasive …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular typing for fungi—a critical review of the possibilities and limitations of currently and future methods

C Gil-Lamaignere, E Roilides, J Hacker… - Clinical Microbiology and …, 2003 - Elsevier
Invasive fungal infections represent an increasing problem in patients with inherited and
acquired immunodeficiencies. Molecular biotyping techniques, such as DNA fingerprinting …

Correlation between the presence of a self-splicing intron in the 25S rDNA of C. albicans and strains susceptibility to 5-fluorocytosine

S Mercure, S Montplaisir, G Lernay - Nucleic acids research, 1993 - academic.oup.com
Candida albicans presents a well characterized EcoRI RFLP pattern of intensely staining
bands. One of these bands, the dimorphic 3.7/4.2 kbp fragment shown to originate from the …

Karyotyping Of Candida Albicans Isolates Obtained Longitudinally In Women With Recurrent Vulvovaginal Candidiasis

JA Vazquez, JD Sobel, R Demitriou… - Journal of Infectious …, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Ten women with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) due to Candida albicans were
followed for a mean of 35.3 months, and 81 vaginal isolates were evaluated by pulsed-field …

High-Frequency, In Vitro Reversible Switching of Candida lusitaniae Clinical Isolates from Amphotericin B Susceptibility to Resistance

SA Yoon, JA Vazquez, PE Steffan… - Antimicrobial agents …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
Recent studies have revealed an increase in the incidence of serious infections caused by
non-albicans Candida species. Candida lusitaniae is of special interest because of its …