Genotype and mating type analysis of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii isolates from China that mainly originated from non-HIV-infected patients

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 930-938

  Feng, Xiaobo ^a   Yao, Zhirong ^a   Ren, Daming ^b   Liao, Wanqing ^c   Wu, Jingsong ^d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHENZHEN PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus neoformans; Genotype; Mating type; Molecular epidemiology; Restriction fragment length polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN GEF 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE;

CHINA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 49749083872     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2008.00422.x     Document Type: Article

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