| Literature DB >> 20881164 |
Thomas A Warren1, Lisa McTaggart, Susan E Richardson, Sean X Zhang.
Abstract
Candida bracarensis is a recently described Candida species which is phenotypically similar to Candida glabrata. A case of C. bracarensis bloodstream infection in a bone marrow transplant patient is described and confirms this organism as an opportunistic human pathogen. The organism can be distinguished from C. glabrata by its white color on CHROMagar and by DNA sequence analysis using D1/D2 and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) primers.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20881164 PMCID: PMC3008444 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01447-10
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948