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. 2017 Mar 24;55(4):1011–1024. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02084-16

TABLE 2.

MLST schemes for pathogenic fungi

Species Locia URL Reference
Cryptococcus neoformans CAP59, GPD1, IGS1, LAC1, PLB1, SOD1, URA5 http://mlst.mycologylab.org/cneoformans/ 35
Cryptococcus gattii http://mlst.mycologylab.org/cgattii/
Scedosporium apiospermum ACT, βTUB, CAL, RPB2, SOD2 http://mlst.mycologylab.org/sapiospermum/ 36
Scedosporium boydii http://mlst.mycologylab.org/sboydii/
Scedosporium aurantiacum ACT, βTUB, CAL, RPB2, SOD2, TEF1α http://mlst.mycologylab.org/saurantiacum/
Bipolaris australiensis BRN1, GPD1, RPB1, RPB2, SAL1, TEF1α http://mlst.mycologylab.org/baustraliensis/ 37
Bipolaris hawaiiensis http://mlst.mycologylab.org/bhawaiiensis/
Bipolaris spicifera http://mlst.mycologylab.org/bspicifera/
Pneumocystis jirovecii βTUB, DHPS, ITS1/2, mtLSU http://mlst.mycologylab.org/pjirovecii/ 38
Candida albicans AAT1a, ACC, ADP1, MPIb, SYA1, VPS13, ZWF1b http://calbicans.mlst.net/ 40
Candida glabrata FKS, LEU2, NMT1, TRP1, UGP1, URA3 http://cglabrata.mlst.net/ 41
Candida krusei ADE2, HIS3, LEU2, LYS2D, NMT1, TRP1 http://pubmlst.org/ckrusei/ 42
Candida tropicalis ICL1, MDR1, SAPT2, SAPT4, XYR1, ZWF1a http://pubmlst.org/ctropicalis/ 43
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CAP59, capsule polysaccharide; GPD1, glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase; IGS1, intergenic spacer 1; LAC1, laccase 1; PLB1, phospholipase B1; SOD1, superoxide dismutase; URA5, orotidine monophosphate pyrophosphorylase; ACT, actin; βTUB, β-tubulin; CAL, calmodulin; RPB2, second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II; SOD2, manganese superoxide dismutase; TEF1α, translation elongation factor 1α; BRN1, melanin reductase; RPB1, largest subunit of RNA polymerase I; SAL1, scytalone dehydratase; DHPS, dihydropteroate synthase; ITS1/2, internal transcribed spacer 1 and 2 regions and 5.8S rRNA gene of the nuclear rRNA gene cluster; mtLSU, mitochondrial large subunit rRNA; AAT1a, aspartate aminotransferase; ACC, acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase; ADP1, ATP-dependent permease; MPIb, mannose phosphate isomerase; SYA1, alanyl-RNA synthetase; VPS13, vacuolar protein sorting protein; ZWF1b, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase; FKS, 1,3-β-Glucan synthase; LEU2, 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase; NMT1, myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase; TRP1, phosphoribosyl-anthranilate isomerase; UGP1, UTP-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase; URA3, orotidine-5-phosphate decarboxylase; ADE2, adenylosuccinate synthetase; HIS3, imidazole glycerol-phosphate dehydratase; LYS2D, l-aminoadipate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; ICL1, isocitrate lyase 1; MDR1, major facilitator transporter; SAPT2, secreted aspartic protease 2; SAPT4, secreted aspartic protease 4; XYR1, xylanase regulator 1; ZWF1a, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase.