title: Typing of Candida isolates from patients with invasive infection and concomitant colonization.
abstract: We investigated the relationship between colonizing and invasive isolates from patients with candidaemia. Molecular typing was performed using random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). We found MLST to be sufficient for typing Candida isolates, and that surveillance cultures are helpful in predicting concomitant invasive isolates, but not necessarily the pathogen involved in subsequent episodes.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Mycology and Parasitology, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark. abrilld@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brillowska-Dabrowska
authors.forename: Olav
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bergmann
authors.forename: Irene Moeller
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Jens Otto
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Jarløv
authors.forename: Maiken C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Arendrup
mesh_terms: D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000382:microbiology*; D002353:Carrier State / Q000382:microbiology*; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D016469:Fungemia / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal