Adaptive morphological changes link to poor clinical outcomes by conferring echinocandin tolerance in Candida tropicalis

• Yongqin Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yongqin Wu, Yun Zou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yongqinwu2020@ustc.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Core Unit of National Clinical Research Center for Laboratory Medicine, Hefei, Anhui, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8393-0259

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• Yun Zou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yongqin Wu, Yun Zou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations Unit of Pathogenic Fungal Infection & Host Immunity, Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yuanyuan Dai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Huaiwei Lu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Wei Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Wenjiao Chang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Ying Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Zhengchao Nie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Yuanyuan Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation The Center for Microbes, Development, and Health, Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Unit of Pathogenic Fungal Infection & Host Immunity, Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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• Xiaohua Jiang

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Center for Reproduction and Genetics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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