Natural environmental sources of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1261-1263

  Sorrell, Tania C ^a,d   Brownlee, Alan G ^b   Ruma, Patricia ^a,b   Malik, Richard ^a   Pfeiffer, Tania J ^c   Ellis, David H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECOLOGY; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029915425     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.5.1261-1263.1996     Document Type: Article

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