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The ability to cause disease is consistent across the species as strains causing systemic infections appear across the known C. albicans<\/jats:italic> intra-species clades.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Methods<\/jats:title>In this work, strains collected from patients with systemic C. albicans<\/jats:italic> infections isolated at the Nebraska Medicine clinical laboratory were typed by MLST analysis. Since the ability to form filaments has been linked to pathogenesis in C. albicans<\/jats:italic>, these clinical strains, as well as a previously genotyped set of clinical strains, were tested for their ability to filament across a variety of inducing conditions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Genotyping of the clinical strains demonstrated that the strains isolated at one of the major medical centers in our region were as diverse as strains collected across the United States. We demonstrated that clinical strains exhibit a variety of filamentation patterns across differing inducing conditions. The only consistent pattern observed in the entire set of clinical strains tested was an almost universal inability to filament in standard solid inducing conditions used throughout the C. albicans<\/jats:italic> field. A different solid filamentation assay that produces more robust filamentation profiles from clinical strains is proposed in this study, although not all strains expected to filament in vivo<\/jats:italic> were filamentous in this assay.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Discussion<\/jats:title>Our data supports growing evidence that broad phenotypic diversity exists between the C. albicans<\/jats:italic> type strain and clinical strains, suggesting that the type strain poorly represents filamentation patterns observed in most clinical isolates. 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