Whole-Genome and Targeted-Amplicon Sequencing of Fluconazole-Susceptible and -Resistant Candida parapsilosis Isolates from Kuwait Reveals a Previously Undescribed N1132D Polymorphism in CDR1.

Candida parapsilosis is an opportunistic yeast pathogen causing invasive candidiasis in susceptible patients, surpassing even Candida albicans in frequency in some centers/geographical areas and also causes ∼35% of all candidemia cases in neonates (1-5).….