Environmental source of Candida dubliniensis.
We isolated Candida dubliniensis from a nonhuman source, namely, tick samples from an Irish seabird colony. The species was unambiguously identifi ed by phenotypic and genotypic means. Analysis of the 5.8S rRNA gene showed that the environmental isolates belong to C. dubliniensis genotype 1.
Nunn
Miles A
MA
National Environment Research Council Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, United Kingdom. amn@ceh.ac.uk
Schäefer
Stefanie M
SM
Petrou
Michael A
MA
Brown
Jillian R M
JR
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D005838:Genotype; D007494:Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D018884:Ixodes / Q000382:microbiology*; D010641:Phenotype