“112 | Environmental isolation and genetic characterization of first Italian Candida blankii strains: an emerging pathogen: Gabriele Parrino1, Alessia Billè1, Lucilla Lo Re1, Bianca Bauso1, Francesco Mediati1, Kyrylo Oleksandrovych Hnezdilov1, Domenico Davide Anania1, Gabriele Rigano2|3, Letterio Giuffrè1, Giuseppe Criseo1, Orazio Romeo1 | 1Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Italy; 2Department of Biology, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy; 3PhD programme in Space Science and Technology, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy”., J Biol Res, vol. 99, no. s1, Mar. 2026, doi: 10.4081/jbr.2026.15364.