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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2005, p. 1430-1432, Vol. 43, No. 3
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1430-1432.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Differentiation between Atypical Isolates of Candida lusitaniae and Candida pulcherrima by Determination of Mating Type

Thierry Noël,1* Anne Favel,2 Annie Michel-Nguyen,3 Abdelhak Goumar,1 Karim Fallague,2 Christiane Chastin,1 Florence Leclerc,1 and Jean Villard1

Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université René Descartes-Paris 5, Paris,1 Laboratoire de Botanique, Cryptogamie et Biologie Cellulaire, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université d'Aix-Marseille,2 Laboratoire Central, Hôpital St-Joseph, Marseille, France3

Received 20 July 2004/ Returned for modification 14 October 2004/ Accepted 20 November 2004

We report on five clinical isolates routinely identified as Candida lusitaniae that the ID 32C system was unable to discriminate from the closely related species Candida pulcherrima. When additional tests did not allow accurate identification, the less usual mating type test identified all of them as Clavispora lusitaniae. Mating type testing appears to be a valuable tool for assessing the true incidence of this emerging non-albicans Candida species.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales, Faculté de Pharmacie, 4 Ave. de l'Observatoire, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. Phone: 33 1 53 73 96 41. Fax: 33 1 53 73 96 40. E-mail: thierry.noel{at}univ-paris5.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2005, p. 1430-1432, Vol. 43, No. 3
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1430-1432.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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