Abstract:
:A new method for quantification of yeast invasion into the agar medium was developed. Classical agar-invasion assays have been the methods of choice for determination of yeast invasion, but their main disadvantage is the lack of quantification. Our new Quantitative yeast agar-invasion test allows for quantitative measurements and enables sorting strains by their degree of invasiveness. The invasion abilities were measured for 10 clinical and non-clinical Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains and a strain of Candida albicans. Finally, the correlation between the degrees of strains invasiveness and their reported virulence was observed, proposing our assay as a method for quick determination of yeast virulence potential.
journal_name
J Microbiol Methodsjournal_title
Journal of microbiological methodsauthors
Zupan J,Raspor Pdoi
10.1016/j.mimet.2008.02.009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-05-01 00:00:00pages
100-4issue
2eissn
0167-7012issn
1872-8359pii
S0167-7012(08)00046-8journal_volume
73pub_type
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