Multilocus sequence typing of Candida albicans oral isolates reveals high genetic relatedness of mother-child dyads in early life

• Naemah Alkhars,

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

  Affiliations Department of General Dental Practice, College of Dentistry, Health Science Center, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait, Translational Biomedical Science Program, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3961-6414

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• Nisreen Al Jallad,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-8123

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• Tong Tong Wu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

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• Jin Xiao

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jin_xiao@urmc.rochester.edu

  Affiliation Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8776-2520

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