TABLE 2.
Discrimination of 86 C. albicans isolates by MLST with all possible combinations of five, six, seven, eight, and nine DNA fragments
| No. of: | No. (%) of DSTs determined for indicated no. of C. albicans isolates (n = 86)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fragments | Combinations | <60 | 60-70 | 70-74 | 75-79 | 80-82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 |
| 5 | 252 | 2 (0.8) | 60 (23.8) | 90 (35.7) | 85 (33.7) | 13 (5.2) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| 6 | 210 | 0 (0.0) | 5 (2.4) | 42 (20.0) | 108 (51.4) | 39 (18.6) | 8 (3.8) | 6 (2.9) | 2 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| 7 | 120 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.7) | 46 (38.3) | 43 (35.8) | 8 (6.7) | 12 (10.0) | 8 (6.7) | 1 (0.8) |
| 8 | 45 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (8.9) | 21 (46.7) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (15.6) | 10 (22.2) | 3 (6.7) |
| 9 | 10 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (30.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (40.0) | 3 (30.0) |