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Seventy-six vaginal <jats:italic>C. glabrata<\/jats:italic> strains isolated from patients with vulvovaginal candidiasis and 57 non-vaginal <jats:italic>C. glabrata<\/jats:italic> isolates were collected at two hospitals in Shanghai, China. Antifungal susceptibility was examined using a broth microdilution method. Multilocus sequence typing was used for genotyping. Overall, 28 (21.1%), 28 (21.1%), and 29 (21.8%) <jats:italic>C. glabrata<\/jats:italic> isolates were resistant to fluconazole, itraconazole, and voriconazole, respectively. Briefly, 18 (23.7%), 18 (23.7%), and 19 (25%) vaginal strains were resistant to fluconazole, itraconazole, and voriconazole. While the resistance to these antifungals were all 17.5% (10\/57) in non-vaginal strains. All isolates retained susceptibility to amphotericin B, and only four non-vaginal isolates were caspofungin resistant. Genotyping identified 17 ST patterns. In non-vaginal samples, the same genotypes appear as in the vaginal samples, except for one genotype (ST-182), while in the vaginal samples more genotypes appear (ST8, ST19, ST45, ST55, ST66, ST80, ST138, and ST17). The most common genotype was ST7 (81 strains), followed by ST10 (14 strains) and ST15 (11 strains). The majority of resistant phenotype strains (25\/30, 83.3%) correlated to the predominant genotype (ST7), and the rest belonged to ST3 (2\/30, 6.7%), ST10 (1\/30, 3.3%), ST19 (1\/30, 3.3%), and ST45 (1\/30, 3.3%). Our survey revealed cross-resistance in vaginal and non-vaginal <jats:italic>C. glabrata<\/jats:italic> isolates. 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