Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2090959 | Journal of Microbiological Methods | 2008 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
A new method for quantification of yeast invasion into the agar medium was developed. Classical agar-invasion assays have been the methods of choice for determination of yeast invasion, but their main disadvantage is the lack of quantification. Our new Quantitative yeast agar-invasion test allows for quantitative measurements and enables sorting strains by their degree of invasiveness. The invasion abilities were measured for 10 clinical and non-clinical Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains and a strain of Candida albicans. Finally, the correlation between the degrees of strains invasiveness and their reported virulence was observed, proposing our assay as a method for quick determination of yeast virulence potential.
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Authors
Jure Zupan, Peter Raspor,