[Personal experience with classification of yeast microorganisms. I. The combined biotyping method of Mencl and Otcenásek and typing using the "killer" phenomenon].
Using a group of 150 isolates of Candida albicans, C. glabrata, C. krusei, C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis a C. kefyr the differentiating capacity of two biotyping systems was tested-the combined method according to Mencl and Otcenásek, and typing using the so-called killer phenomenon. With the combined method comparable results with the original work of the authors were obtained. This applies to the number of biotypes as well as to the ratio of the dominant biotype. As regards the differentiating characteristics of different biotypes the two studies differed fundamentally. As to typing, using the "killer" phenomenon, its practical usefulness was tested, the differentiating capacity of the method was, however, very much influenced by the small number of available killer-positive yeast strains.
Hamal
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Ustav mikrobiologie, Lékarská fakulta Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc.
Koukalová
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Hájek
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D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification*; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques