Identification of clinical strains of Candida albicans by DNA fingerprinting with the polymerase chain reaction.

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Published in Mycoses on January 27, 1994

Authors

G Schönian1, O Meusel, H J Tietz, W Meyer, Y Gräser, I Tausch, W Presber, T G Mitchell

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1: Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie der Charité, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.

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