The emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-65

  Bartlett, Karen H ^b   Kidd, Sarah E ^b   Kronstad, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CANADA; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41049096607     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-008-0011-1     Document Type: Review

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