Electrophoretic karyotypes of C. neoformans serotype A recovered from Thai Patients with AIDS

Mycopathologia

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-197

  Ngamwongsatit, Puriya ^a   Sukroongreung, Samaniya ^a   Nilakul, Churairatana ^a   Prachayasittikul, Virapong ^a   Tantimavanich, Srisurang ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cryptococcus neoformans; Karyotype; Molecular typing

Indexed keywords

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

FUNGAL DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; THAILAND;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; THAILAND;

EID: 18344394783     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-004-6671-y     Document Type: Article

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