Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from hollows of living trees in the city of Alfenas, MG, Brazil

Mycoses

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 261-264

  Reimão, Juliana Quero ^b   Drummond, Elislene Dias ^b   Terceti, Mateus De Souza ^c   Lyon, Juliana Pereira ^a,b   Franco, Marília Caixeta ^c   De Siqueira, Antônio Martins ^b  

^a Federal University of Alfenas ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALFENAS   (Brazil)

^c Universidade Jose do Rosario Vellano   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Habitat; Hollows of living trees; Mating type; Serotype; Wood in decay

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; WOOD;

BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FABACEAE; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

ALFENAS; ANADENANTHERA PEREGRINA; CAESALPINIA PELTOPHOROIDES; COLUMBA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 34250366242     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2007.01374.x     Document Type: Article

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