Environmental source of Candida dubliniensis

Miles A Nunn; Stefanie M Schäefer; Michael A Petrou; Jillian R M Brown

doi:10.3201/eid1305.061179

Environmental source of Candida dubliniensis

Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 May;13(5):747-50. doi: 10.3201/eid1305.061179.

Authors

Miles A Nunn¹, Stefanie M Schäefer, Michael A Petrou, Jillian R M Brown

Affiliation

¹ National Environment Research Council Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, United Kingdom. [email protected]

Abstract

We isolated Candida dubliniensis from a nonhuman source, namely, tick samples from an Irish seabird colony. The species was unambiguously identifi ed by phenotypic and genotypic means. Analysis of the 5.8S rRNA gene showed that the environmental isolates belong to C. dubliniensis genotype 1.

MeSH terms

Animals
Birds / microbiology
Birds / parasitology
Candida / classification
Candida / isolation & purification*
Candida / pathogenicity
Disease Reservoirs
Environmental Microbiology*
Feces / microbiology*
Genotype
Ireland / epidemiology
Ixodes / microbiology*
Phenotype