First isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii from a native jungle tree in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

Mycoses

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 137-140

  Fortes, Silvana T ^a,b,d   Lazéra, Maria S ^a   Nishikawa, M M ^c   Macedo, R G L ^a   Wanke, B ^a  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RORAIMA   (Brazil)

^c National Institute for Quality Control in Health   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii; Ecology; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TREE;

BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOCOCCUS BACILLISPORUS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GUETTARDA; GUETTARDA ACREANA;

EID: 0034947932     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2001.00651.x     Document Type: Article

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