Development of Candida auris Short Tandem Repeat Typing and Its Application to a Global Collection of Isolates

Candida auris is an emerging fungal pathogen now recognized as a threat to public health. The pathogen has spread worldwide and causes mainly hospital-associated outbreaks. To track and trace outbreaks and to relate them to new introductions from elsewhere, whole-genome sequencing and amplified frag...

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Main Authors: Theun de Groot, Ynze Puts, Indira Berrio, Anuradha Chowdhary, Jacques F. Meis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-01-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02971-19