Evidence of Sexual Recombination among Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype A Isolates in Sub-Saharan Africa

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1162-1168

  Litvintseva, Anastasia P ^a   Marra, Robert E ^a   Nielsen, Kirsten ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a   Vilgalys, Rytas ^a,b   Mitchell, Thomas G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; CELL CLONE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ALLELES; BOTSWANA; CLONE CELLS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 0347064089     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.2.6.1162-1168.2003     Document Type: Article

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