Genotyping, serotyping and determination of mating-type of Cryptococcus neoformans clinical isolates from São Paulo State, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-47

  Matsumoto, Marcelo Teruyuki ^a   Fusco Almeida, Ana Marisa ^a   Baeza, Lilian Cristiane ^a   Melhem, Márcia De Souza Carvalho ^b   Mendes Giannini, Maria José Soares ^a,c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus; Epidemiology; Mating type; PCR fingerprinting; RAPD; RFLP

Indexed keywords

LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEROTYPING; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33947544965     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652007000100008     Document Type: Article

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