Patent ID: 7465543

Claim:
A method for detecting yeast species comprising one or more of Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Lodderomyces elongisporus and Candida glabrata , in a biological sample comprising: a) recovering nucleic acid from said biological sample, b) contacting said nucleic acid with a plurality of oligonucleotide probes under conditions effective to allow hybridization between said probes and complementary nucleic acids to form a probe/nucleic acid complex when one or more of said yeasts are present, wherein said plurality of probes comprises: (1) Alb7 or an oligonucleotide complementary thereto, (2) Trop5B or an oligonucleotide complementary thereto, (3) LPW or an oligonucleotide complementary thereto, and (4) Glab5 or an oligonucleotide complementary thereto, and further wherein each of said probes are detectably labeled, and c) detecting the presence or absence of said probe/nucleic acid complexes as an indication of the presence of a yeast comprising one or more of said Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Lodderomyces elongisporus and Candida glabrata.