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Use of variability of the fungal ITS2 intergenic region for the identification of medically important yeast species

✍ Scribed by Vladimír Hrabovský; Leonard Siegfried


Book ID
111492214
Publisher
Versita
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
209 KB
Volume
64
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3088

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✦ Synopsis


Yeasts are common fungal opportunistic pathogens in humans playing a significant role in the morbidity and mortality of immunocompromised patients. Number of resistant yeast species is responsible for infections and consequent infectious complications, but the final microbiological diagnosis can be affected by variability of their phenotype and may result in incorrect identification. For the purposes of this study, advanced applications of molecular genetic methods based on certain up-to-date knowledge of fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions have been employed, which could support a possibility of universal application of such methods for identification of any pure yeast culture. In this study, the targeted DNA was amplified by a couple of primers, and the products of PCR reaction were divided by capillary electrophoresis. In the cases, in which the measured sizes of fragments did not correspond with the anticipated sizes, fragments were used for the sequencing analysis and compared to the nucleotide databases using the BLAST tool. Out of 208 isolates, 7.2% (n = 16) of cases occurred to be incorrectly determined, particularly in the group of non-albicans Candida species accounting for as many as 21.7%.


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