Clonal reproduction and limited dispersal in an environmental population of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii isolates from Australia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 703-711

  Halliday, C L ^a,b   Carter, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLONAL VARIATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENCAPSULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SAMPLING;

AUSTRALIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY;

CRYPTOCOCCUS BACILLISPORUS; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 0037316648     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.2.703-711.2003     Document Type: Article

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