The biology of the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2006, Pages 69-105

  Lin, Xiaorong ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hybridization; Mating; Polymorphism; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS GRUBII; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIFE CYCLE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EUCALYPTUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; VIRULENCE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 33750289222     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.60.080805.142102     Document Type: Review

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