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Letter to the Editors

Candida haemulonii species complex: an emerging species in India and its genetic diversity assessed with multilocus sequence and amplified fragment-length polymorphism analyses

Anil KumarDepartment of Microbiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Ponekara, Kochi, Kerala682041, India
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Anupam PrakashDepartment of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi110007, India
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Ashutosh SinghDepartment of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi110007, India
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Harish KumarDepartment of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Podiatric Surgery, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Ponekara, Kochi, Kerala682041, India
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Ferry HagenDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen6532SZ, The Netherlands
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Jacques F MeisDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen6532SZ, The Netherlands;Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen6525GA, The Netherlands
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Anuradha ChowdharyDepartment of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi110007, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1-12 | Received 01 Dec 2015, Accepted 23 Feb 2016, Published online: 25 Jan 2019

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