TABLE 2.
Switching in three additional pathogenic isolates of C. glabrata
| Strain | Original phenotype | No. of colonies | Frequency of colonies
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| Wha | LB | DB | Sectoredb | Variant | |||
| 65FLOP | LB | 3,775 | 5.8 × 10−3 | 5.8 × 10−3 | 9% | 1.2 × 10−2 | |
| 65TL1 | LB | 2,330 | 4.0 × 10−4 | 5.4 × 10−2 | >80% | 5.5 × 10−2 | |
| 75PL1 | DB | 3,290 | 2.4 × 10−3 | 6.0 × 10−4 | 0.4% | 3.0 × 10−3 | |
a
Wh colonies were further subdivided into 8 normal smooth white and 14 conus smooth white.
b
In platings of both the 65FLOP and 65TL1 cells, the great majority of sectors in LB colonies were DB. In the DB colonies, six Wh sectors, two LB sectors, and seven vDB sectors were observed.