Concordance of clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii by random amplification of polymorphic DNA analysis and PCR fingerprinting

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1253-1260

  Sorrell, Tania C ^a   Chen, Sharon C A ^a,d   Ruma, Patricia ^a,b   Meyer, Wieland ^a   Pfeiffer, Tania J ^c   Ellis, David H ^c   Brownlee, Alan G ^b  

^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;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOLOGY; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029939336     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.5.1253-1260.1996     Document Type: Article

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