Aspergillus strain typing in the genomics era
Open Access
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Studies in Mycology
- Vol. 59 (1) , 47-51
- https://doi.org/10.3114/sim.2007.59.06
Abstract
Multiple reasons may justify a need for strain typing purposes, but the most common reason is to delineate the epidemiological relationships between isolates. The availability of whole genome sequences has greatly influenced our ability to develop highly targeted and efficient strain typing methods fur these purposes. Some strain typing methods may serve dual goals: not only can they be used to discriminate between multiple isolates of a certain species, they can also aid in the recognition, identification, description and validation process of a fungal species.Keywords
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