title: Differentiation between atypical isolates of Candida lusitaniae and Candida pulcherrima by determination of mating type.
abstract: We report on five clinical isolates routinely identified as Candida lusitaniae that the ID 32C system was unable to discriminate from the closely related species Candida pulcherrima. When additional tests did not allow accurate identification, the less usual mating type test identified all of them as Clavispora lusitaniae. Mating type testing appears to be a valuable tool for assessing the true incidence of this emerging non-albicans Candida species.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales, Faculté de Pharmacie, 4 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. thierry.noel@univ-paris5.fr
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Noël
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Favel
authors.forename: Annie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Michel-Nguyen
authors.forename: Abdelhak
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goumar
authors.forename: Karim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fallague
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chastin
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Leclerc
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Villard
mesh_terms: D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D010641:Phenotype