Yeast diversity sampling on the San Juan Islands reveals no evidence for the spread of the Vancouver Island Cryptococcus gattii outbreak to this locale

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 620-624

  Fraser, James A ^a   Lim, Shirlene M C ^a   Diezmann, Stephanie ^a   Wenink, Emily C ^a   Arndt, Cristl G ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Dietrich, Fred S ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cryptococcus gattii; Pacific Northwest; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; YEAST;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WASHINGTON;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; TREMELLALES;

EID: 33646550502     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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