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ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo2019

Usefulness of a multiplex PCR for the rapid identification of Candida glabrata species complex in Mexican clinical isolates.

María Del Rocío Reyes-Montes, Gustavo Acosta-Altamirano, Esperanza Duarte-Escalante, Eduardo García Salazar, Erick Martínez-Herrera, Roberto Arenas, Gloria González, María Guadalupe Frías-De-León

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Article in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Global Epidemiology of Invasive Infections by UncommonJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  3. Identification of Cryptic Species of FourJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019
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María Del Rocío Reyes-MontesUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Ciudad de México, México.
Gustavo Acosta-AltamiranoHospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Ixtapaluca, Unidad de Investigación, Ixtapaluca, México.
Esperanza Duarte-EscalanteUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Ciudad de México, México.
Eduardo García SalazarHospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Ixtapaluca, Unidad de Investigación, Ixtapaluca, México.
Erick Martínez-HerreraHospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Ixtapaluca, Unidad de Investigación, Ixtapaluca, México.
Roberto ArenasHospital General "Dr. Manuel Gea González, Sección de Micología, Ciudad de México, México.
Gloria GonzálezUniversidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiología, Monterrey, México.
María Guadalupe Frías-De-LeónHospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Ixtapaluca, Unidad de Investigación, Ixtapaluca, México.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3160-8698

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Candida glabrata complex includes three species identified through molecular biology methods: C. glabrata sensu stricto , C. nivariensis and C. bracarensis . In Mexico, the phenotypic methods are still used in the diagnosis; therefore, the presence of C. nivariensis and C. bracarensis among clinical isolates is still unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of a multiplex PCR for the identification of the C. glabrata species complex. DNA samples from 92 clinical isolates that were previously identified through phenotypic characteristics as C. glabrata were amplified by four oligonucleotides (UNI-5.8S, GLA-f, BRA-f, and NIV-f) that generate amplicons of 397, 293 and 223-bp corresponding to C. glabrata sensu stricto , C. nivariensis , and C. bracarensis , respectively. The amplicon sequences were used to perform a phylogenetic analysis through the Maximum Likelihood method (MEGA6), including strains and reference sequences of species belonging to C. glabrata complex. In addition, recombination and linkage disequilibrium were estimated (DnaSP version 5.0) for C. glabrata sensu stricto isolate s . Eighty-eight isolates generated a 397-bp fragment and only in one isolate a 223-bp amplicon was observed. In the phylogenetic tree, the sequences of 397-bp were grouped with C. glabrata reference sequences , and the sequence of 223-bp was grouped with C. bracarensis reference sequences, corroborating the PCR identification. The number of recombination events for the isolates of C. glabrata sensu stricto was zero, suggesting a clonal population structure. Three isolates that did not amplify any of the expected fragments were identified as Saccharomyces cerevisiae through the sequencing of the D1/D2 domain region within the 28S rDNA gene. The multiplex PCR is a fast, cost-effective and reliable tool that can be used in clinical laboratories to identify C. glabrata complex species.

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Candida glabrataCandidiasisDNA, FungalDNA, RibosomalDNA, Ribosomal SpacerFemaleHumansMaleMexicoMultiplex Polymerase Chain ReactionMycological Typing TechniquesPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNADNA, FungalDNA, RibosomalDNA, Ribosomal Spacer

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PMCPMC6690577

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