The numerical taxonomy of pathogenic species of candida

One hundred and eighty-one isolates of Candida comprising C, albicans ( 58.6 ), C> parapsilosis ( 25.2 % ), C. tropicalis ( 10.5 % )» C. krusei ( 4.4 % )» C. guilliermondii ( 2.2 % ), C. pseudotropicalis ( 0.6 % ) and C. ravauttii ( 0.6 fe ), were examined for 26 physiological characteristics. The characters obtained were subjected to 5 different clustering analyses ( MULTBET, MÜLCLAS using " incremental sum of squares " fusion strategy and MULCLAS using " group average " fusion strategy ).