Population structure and molecular genetic characterization of clinical Candida tropicalis isolates from a tertiary-care hospital in Kuwait reveal infections with unique strains

• Khaled Al-Obaid ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled Al-Obaid, Mohammad Asadzadeh

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology, Department of Medical Laboratories, Al-Amiri Hospital, Sharq, Kuwait

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• Mohammad Asadzadeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled Al-Obaid, Mohammad Asadzadeh

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Suhail Ahmad ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: suhail_ah@hsc.edu.kw

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-4781

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• Ziauddin Khan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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