Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Candida parapsilosis Characterization in an Outbreak Setting

Duncan M. Kuhn*¹, Pranab K. Mukherjee*, Thomas A. Clark†, Claude Pujol‡, Jyotsna Chandra*, Rana A. Hajjeh†, David W. Warnock†, David R. Soll‡, and Mahmoud A. Ghannoum*

Author affiliations: *University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; 1Current affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Washington Hospitals, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

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Relatedness of Candida parapsilosis clinical isolates. Dendrogram generated from SABs computed for pairwise comparisons of the 14 C. parapsilosis test isolates and the reference strain J940043 fingerprinted with Cp3-13. Note that with the exception of the six identical outbreak isolates, none of the dendrogram nodes exceed an SAB value of 0.7 for the other test isolates.

Figure 2. Relatedness of Candida parapsilosis clinical isolates. Dendrogram generated from S_ABs computed for pairwise comparisons of the 14 C. parapsilosis test isolates and the reference strain J940043 fingerprinted with Cp3-13. Note that with the exception of the six identical outbreak isolates, none of the dendrogram nodes exceed an S_AB value of 0.7 for the other test isolates.

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