Screening of strains of the Candida parapsilosis group of the BCCM/IHEM collection by MALDI-TOF MS

Hendrickx, Marijke;Goffinet, Jean-Sébastien;Swinne, Danielle;Detandt, Monique
(2011) Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease — Vol. 70, n° 4, p. 544-548 (2011)

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  • Hendrickx, Marijke
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  • Goffinet, Jean-SébastienUCLouvain
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  • Swinne, Danielle
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  • Detandt, Monique
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Abstract
One hundred sixty-three strains stored as Candida parapsilosis in the BCCM/IHEM collection were reidentified based on internal transcribed spacer sequencing: 92% were identified as true C. parapsilosis, while 4.3% and 3% belonged to the closely related species C. metapsilosis and C. orthopsilosis, respectively, providing important epidemiologic information. Furthermore, we showed that matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry is a fast method that can discriminate between these species. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.
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Hendrickx, M., Goffinet, J.-S., Swinne, D., & Detandt, M. (2011). Screening of strains of the Candida parapsilosis group of the BCCM/IHEM collection by MALDI-TOF MS. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 70(4), 544-548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.04.006 (Original work published 2011)