Karyotype instability in Cryptococcus neoformans infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1531-1534

  Fries, Bettina C ^a   Chen, Fengying ^a   Currie, Brian P ^a   Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 0029894618     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.6.1531-1534.1996     Document Type: Article

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