Isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans serotype D from Eucalypts in South Brazil

Medical Mycology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 707-713

  Ribeiro, Ângela Medeiros ^a   Silva, Lívia Kmetzsch Rosa E ^a   Schrank, Irene Silveira ^a   Schrank, Augusto ^a   Meyer, Wieland ^b   Vainstein, Marilene Henning ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus neoformans; Epidemiology; Molecular typing; PCR fingerprinting; RAPD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPE;

BRAZIL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; EUCALYPTUS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. NEOFORMANS; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 37849186298     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780600917209     Document Type: Article

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