Serotyping of 467 Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from clinical and environmental sources in Brazil: Analysis of host and regional patterns

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-77

  Nishikawa, Marília M ^a,c   Lazera, Márcia S ^a   Barbosa, Glaucia G ^a   Trilles, Luciana ^a   Balassiano, Beatriz R ^a   Macedo, Regina C L ^a   Bezerra, Cláudia C F ^a   Pérez, Maurício A ^b   Cardarelli, Paola ^a   Wanke, Bodo ^a  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONOXYMANNAN; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; TREE;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SEROTYPING; SEX FACTORS;

CASSIA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 12244308131     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.1.73-77.2003     Document Type: Article

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