[PDF] Top 20 Multilocus Sequence Typing for Analyses of Clonality of Candida albicans Strains in Taiwan

... Recently, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been de- veloped to meet the increasing need for global surveillance and comparison of genotypes in a central database via the ...diploid ... See full document

... C. albicans), or eight (for ...(C. albicans, C. dubliniensis, C. krusei, and C. tropicalis). Each sequence is compared with the reference database for the ...existing sequence, it is assigned ... See full document

... of Candida albicans isolates is essential for understanding the epidemiology of nosocomial infections caused by this ...of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for characterizing ... See full document

... C. albicans and the relationship between clades of isolates and their properties of clinical ...C. albicans may differ significantly in the proportions of isolates from blood, the oropharynx, the vagina, ... See full document

... C. albicans populations commonly exist in a state of high genetic ...(“mutator”) strains is well recognized among some species of bacteria, particularly gram-negative bacilli (18, 59, ...variable ... See full document

... oral Candida carriers and patients with periodontitis ...C. albicans MLST clade 1 is enriched with isolates recovered from superficial infections, as well as with ABC genotype A isolates ...C. ... See full document

... The introduction of novel antifungal agents has helped stem the steady rise of systemic fungal infections observed over the years (4, 16, 17, 28). Nevertheless, nosocomial Candida albi- cans infections remain a ... See full document

... C. albicans isolates recovered from the periodontal pockets, gin- gival sulci, and oral mucosae of patients with periodontitis by using molecular typing techniques such as random amplified polymorphic DNA ... See full document

... Molecular typing methods provide insights into the genetic diversity of a species as well as the mechanisms underlying the acquisition of such ...repetitive sequence Ca3, have revealed that commensal and ... See full document

... 42), multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) (5), and fingerprinting with complex DNA probes ...direct sequence comparison for typing ...direct sequence comparison, we developed a ... See full document

... Results: The MLST analysis revealed a substantial degree of genetic homogeneity. The DST782 and DST182 were the main MLST genotypes in C. africana. All the patients were symptomatic and with a high mycological cure rate ... See full document

... MLP typing, the 50 isolates studied yielded 38 different profiles, with a discriminatory power index of ...MLST typing, the 50 isolates yielded 40 distinct DSTs, with a discriminatory power index of ...to ... See full document

... strain typing have been developed for this species (32), but no system has yet achieved universal ...C. albicans nucleotide sequences show greater or lesser diversity of types depending on the extent of ... See full document

... by multilocus sequence typing with the set of six gene fragments described in this ...C. albicans MLST ...for strains within the species and found two stable subtypes that formed ... See full document

... A total of 68 C. jejuni and 20 C. coli clinical isolates were collected from infected children up to 14 years from 5 general hospitals of the area of Attica. All the strains were isolated from sporadic cases with ... See full document

... The performance data reported in this study are comparable to those previously reported for C. albicans PNA FISH as well as other PNA FISH assays for other blood pathogens (13, 19). PNA FISH has proven to be ... See full document

... Previous studies demonstrated that conjugate vaccines not only protect vaccinees but also reduce the carriage and the transmission among non vaccinated people [1]. This was observed especially among ST-11 strains ... See full document

... suis strains belonged to a large group (group 4) with low internal bootstrap values, although strains belonging to a particular pig herd showed a tendency to ...suis strains, indicating that the ... See full document

... Our demographic data regarding age at infection (65 % ≥60 years) and source of isolation (blood in 65 %) are in concordance with data from a large survey in Canada reporting age ≥70 years in 53 % and blood as site of ... See full document

... of Candida albicans suggests that (para)- sexual recombination does not play an important role in the lifestyle of this oppor- tunistic fungal pathogen, an assumption that is strengthened by the fact that ... See full document