Identification of medically important yeasts by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer and D1/D2 region of the large ribosomal subunit

AYDIN, Merve | KUŞTİMUR, Semra | KALKANCI, Ayşe | DURAN, Tuğçe

Background: The prevalence of opportunistic yeast infections has increased in recent decades as the resultof an increasing immunocompromised patient population.Aims: To evaluate ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequence to identify medically important yeast species, toinvestigate the performance of both the rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and D1/D2 region in identifying clinically relevant yeasts, and to compare these results with those of a standard phenotypicmethod.Methods: Both regions from 50 yeast strains, comprising 45 clinical isolates and 5 reference strains, wereamplified using P ...Daha fazlası