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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 1463-1468Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02467-08
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia [CGL2005-07394/BOS, CGL2007-65669/BOS]
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Forty-eight Fusarium isolates morphologically identified as belonging to seven species of clinical interest (i.e., Fusarium chlamydosporum, Fusarium dimerum, Fusarium incarnatum, Fusarium napiforme, Fusarium nygamai, Fusarium proliferatum, and Fusarium sacchari) were characterized molecularly by the analysis of the sequences of the TUB region of the beta-tubulin gene. F. chlamydosporum and F. dimerum were the most genetically heterogeneous species. A high degree of correlation between the morphological and molecular identification was shown among the isolates studied. A table with the key morphological features for the identification of these Fusarium species is provided. The antifungal susceptibilities of the Fusarium isolates to 11 antifungal drugs were tested; terbinafine was the most active drug against all the species tested with the exception of F. incarnatum, for which amphotericin B was the most active.
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