Deoxyribonucleic acid fingerprinting methods for Candida species
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Whole Genome Sequencing of Candida glabrata for Detection of Markers of Antifungal Drug Resistance
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Shawn R Lockhart1, Claude Pujol, Andrew R Dodgson
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
Methods in Molecular Medicine
|May 13, 2005
Abstract:
A number of genetic fingerprinting methods have evolved to analyze the population structure and to perform epidemiological and etiological studies of infectious fungi. These methods include multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, restriction fragment-length polymorphism using complex probes, random amplification of polymorphic DNA, and multilocus sequence typing, which are described in this chapter.
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