Merging FT-IR and NGS for simultaneous phenotypic and genotypic identification of pathogenic Candida species

• Claudia Colabella,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences—Microbiology, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy)

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• Laura Corte ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences—Microbiology, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy)

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• Luca Roscini ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences—Microbiology, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy)

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• Volha Shapaval ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Volha Shapaval, Achim Kohler, Valeria Tafintseva

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

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• Achim Kohler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Volha Shapaval, Achim Kohler, Valeria Tafintseva

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

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• Valeria Tafintseva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Volha Shapaval, Achim Kohler, Valeria Tafintseva

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

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• Carlo Tascini ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli—Ospedale Cotugno, Napoli, Italy

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• Gianluigi Cardinali

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gianluigi.cardinali@unipg.it

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences—Microbiology, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy), CEMIN, Centre of Excellence on Nanostructured Innovative Materials—Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology—University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4522-7925

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