Candida albicans identification

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Roemer, T. et al. 2003. Large-scale essential gene identification in Candida albicans and applications to antifungal drug discovery. Mol. Microbiol. 50, 167-181. 

Ishiguro A, Homma M, Torii S, Tanaka K Identification of Candida albicans antigens reactive with immunoglobulin E antibody of human sera. Infect Immun 1992 60 1550-1557. 

Hull CM, Johnson AD Identification of a mating type-like locus in the asexual pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. Science 1999 285 1271-1275. 

Dignard, D., El-Naggar, A.L., Logue, M.E., Butler, G., and Whiteway, M. (2007). Identification and characterization of MFAl, the gene encoding Candida albicans a-factor pheromone. Eukaryot Cell 6 487-494. 

Gupta, V., Kohli, A., Krishnamurthy, S., Puri, N., Aalamgeer, S.A., Panwar, S., and Prasad, R. (1998) Identification of polymorphic mutant alleles of CaMDR 3, a major facilitator of Candida albicans... 

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Yamada-Okabe, T. Sakamori, Y. Mio, T. Yamada-Okabe, H. Identification and characterization of the genes for N-acetylglucosamine kinase and N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate deacetylase in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. Eur. J. Biochem., 268, 2498-2505 (2001)... 

MAR-FISH was used to foUow the degradation of C-labeled o-nitrophenol in a coculture composed of Pseudomonas putida B2 and Sphingomonas sty-gia [159]. The technique allowed the identification of the bacterium involved in degradation of o-nitrophenol. Microautoradiography was also used by Francisco et al. [160] to monitor the microbial activity of Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in an oil-polluted tropical bay on the Atlantic Ocean. 

Biological Applications Assay for nucleic acids, protein determination, identification of Candida albicans method for counting leukocytes, controlled drug re-lease radiotherapy treating apolipoprotein E-related diseases oral care products ... 

Yucesoy, M. Esen, N. Yulug, N. Use of chromogenic tube and methyl blue-sabouraud agar for the identification of Candida albicans strains. Kobe J. Med. Sci. 2001, 47, 161-167. 

No test has demonstrated reliable accuracy in the clinical setting for diagnosis of disseminated Candida infection. Blood cultures are positive in only 25% to 45% of neutropenic patients with disseminated candidiasis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization has excellent sensitivity and specificity in the identification of C. albicans from blood. 

Until recently, a rapid presumptive identification of C. albicans could be made by incubation of the organism in serum formation of a germ tube (the beginning of hyphae, which arise as perpendicular extensions from the yeast cell, with no constriction at their point of origin) within 1 to 2 hours offered a positive identification of C. albicans. Unformnately, C. dubliniensis, a new species of Candida that was identified recently as an important cause of mucosal colonization and infection in HIV-infected individuals, also can produce a germ mbe. A negative germ tube test does not rule out the possibility of C. albicans, but further biochemical tests must be performed to differentiate between other non-albicans species. ... 

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