Killer behavior within the Candida parapsilosis complex

@article{RobledoLeal2014KillerBW,
  title={Killer behavior within the Candida parapsilosis complex},
  author={Efr{\'e}n Robledo-Leal and Mariana Elizondo-Zertuche and Licet Villarreal-Trevi{\~n}o and Rogelio de Jes{\'u}s Trevi{\~n}o-Rangel and Nancy Garc{\'i}a-Maldonado and Juan Manuel Adame-Rodr{\'i}guez and Gloria M. Gonz{\'a}lez},
  journal={Folia Microbiologica},
  year={2014},
  volume={59},
  pages={503-506},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:884540}
}
The lack of sensitivity to killer activity among isolates of the genus Candida suggests that their toxins belong to the same killer type, and differentiation of species within the C. parapsilosis complex using the killer system may be feasible if a more taxonomically diverse panel of killer strains is employed.
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