KARYOTYPING OF MALASSEZIA YEASTS - TAXONOMIC AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS

Authors
BOEKHOUT T BOSBOOM RW
Citation
T. Boekhout et Rw. Bosboom, KARYOTYPING OF MALASSEZIA YEASTS - TAXONOMIC AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS, Systematic and applied microbiology, 17(1), 1994, pp. 146-153
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Systematic and applied microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07232020
Volume
17
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
146 - 153
Database
ISI
SICI code
0723-2020(1994)17:1<146:KOMY-T>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Karyotypes of the medically important yeasts Malassezia furfur, M. pac hydermatis and M. sympodialis were studied by pulsed field electrophor esis. Malassezia pachydermatis revealed uniform banding patterns. Most strains investigated showed five bands of chromosomal DNA.Within M. f urfur four different karyotypes occurred. The karyotype of M. sympodia lis was identical to part of strains currently classified as M. furfur . The use of electrophoretic karyotyping in epidemiological investigat ions of Malassezia yeasts is discussed.