Performance comparison of phenotypic and molecular methods for detection and 1 differentiation of Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis
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Performance comparison of phenotypic and molecular methods for detection and 1 differentiation of Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis 2 3 Suhail Ahmad*, Ziauddin Khan, Mohammad Asadzadeh, Ajmal Theyyathel, and Rachel Chandy 4 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P. O. Box 24923, Kuwait 5 6 Running title: Detection of C. albicans and C. dubliniensis 7 8 9 *Correspondence to: 10 Prof. Suhail Ahmad 11 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, 12 Kuwait University, P. O. Box 24923, Safat 13 Kuwait-13110 14 Email: [email protected] 15 Tel : 00965-2498-6503 16 Fax: 00965-25318454/25332719 17 18
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