Serotyping of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from environmental and clinical sources in extreme sonthern Italy (Calabria and Sicily, central Mediterranean area)

Mycoses

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 95-100

  Criseo, G ^a,b   Gallo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti e dell'Ambiente   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Epidemiology; Serotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENT; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 0030664883     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1997.tb00194.x     Document Type: Article

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