title: Screening of strains of the Candida parapsilosis group of the BCCM/IHEM collection by MALDI-TOF MS.
abstract: One hundred sixty-three strains stored as Candida parapsilosis in the BCCM/IHEM collection were reidentified based on internal transcribed spacer sequencing: 92% were identified as true C. parapsilosis, while 4.3% and 3% belonged to the closely related species C. metapsilosis and C. orthopsilosis, respectively, providing important epidemiologic information. Furthermore, we showed that matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry is a fast method that can discriminate between these species.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mycology and Aerobiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium. marijke.hendrickx@wiv-isp.be
authors.forename: Marijke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hendrickx
authors.forename: Jean-Sebastien
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Goffinet
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Swinne
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Detandt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002175:Candida / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D009172:Mycology / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer