Assessing the Potential of FT-IR to Identify Clinical Strains of Candida Spp

• Author(s): Brandão, Filipa ; Veríssimo, Cristina ; Brandão, João
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/883
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
• Subject(s): Candida; FT-IR; Infecções Sistémicas e Zoonoses
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

21 clinical isolates of Candida spp were examined by FT-IR in order to compare identification using FT-IR with biochemical identification (bioMerieux®). FT-IR revealed itself as a fast and effective method for identification of the strains tested as all were placed into the appropriate species, including one which was misidentified by the biochemical method.