List of patients recruited in this study.

Patient ID, a specific number was assigned to each patient according to the chronology of their recruitment; Age, patient age in years; Sex, patient sex (M, male; F, female); Sampling date, date/month/year on which sampling was performed; Sample #, sample number according to the chronology of sampling; Sample from, body area from which sample was obtained (Exp. Sputum, expectorated sputum); Candida culture, indicates if culture was performed and whether yeast colonies were obtained. Candida, isolation of Candida spp. using a culture-based method at the Division of Mycology, La Rabta Hospital Tunis, relying on colony growth on Sabouraud’s medium supplemented with chloramphenicol and actidione, followed by chlamydosporulation testing (see Materials and Methods); # of Candida isolates, total number of Candida isolates from each sputum/oral/vaginal sample; Species ID, Candida species identified using MALDI ToF or ITS sequencing approaches or a combination of both; Method, method used for species identification; C. albicans strain ID, strain nomenclature according to the chronology of sampling date; DST, clade, Diploid sequence type of the isolate based on MLST data, followed by the clade to which the isolate belongs; Aspergillus, indicates if an Aspergillus species was co-isolated with Candida species from the same sample; Pseudomonas, indicates if Pseudomonas aeruginosa was co-isolated with Candida species from the same sample; Other bacteria, indicates if other bacteria species were co-isolated with Candida species from the same sample; N/A, not applicable; ND, not determined.
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