Prevalence of clinical isolates of Cryptococcus gattii serotype C among patients with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 192, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 888-892

  Litvintseva, Anastasia P ^a   Thakur, Rameshwari ^b   Reller, L Barth ^a   Mitchell, Thomas G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALAWI; MATING TYPE; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; BOTSWANA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; MALAWI; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 23944474612     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432486     Document Type: Article

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