Unique hybrids between the fungal pathogens Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 599-607

  Bovers, Marjan ^a   Hagen, Ferry ^a   Kuramae, Eiko E ^a   Diaz, Mara R ^b   Spanjaard, Lodewijk ^c   Dromer, Françoise ^d   Hoogveld, Hans L ^e   Boekhout, Teun ^a  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BD hybrid; Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; Recurrent meningitis

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; DNA ISOLATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST RANGE; HYBRID; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MATING SYSTEM; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLOIDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS MENINGITIS; YEAST;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLOIDIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 33646560285     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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