A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 49, 2004, Pages 17258-17263

  Kidd, S E ^a,b,f   Hagen, F ^c   Tscharke, R L ^e   Huynh, M ^b   Bartlett, K H ^f   Fyfe, M ^g   MacDougall, L ^g   Boekhout, T ^c,d   Kwon Chung, K J ^e   Meyer, W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP); Mating type; PCR fingerprinting; Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; FUNGI;

EID: 10344226208     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402981101     Document Type: Article

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