Multilocus microsatellite typing for Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 685-696

  Hanafy, Ahmed ^a   Kaocharoen, Sirada ^b,c   Jover Botella, Alejandro ^b   Katsu, Masakazu ^a   Iida, Soji ^a   Kogure, Takahisa ^a   Gonoi, Tohru ^a   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a   Meyer, Wieland ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii; Genotyping; Microsatellites; Serotype A; Simple sequence repeats

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII;

EID: 55149109688     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780802027062     Document Type: Article

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