Primary endemic Cryptococcosis gattii by molecular type VGII in the state of Pará, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 813-818

  Dos Santos, Wallace Raimundo A ^a   Meyer, Wieland ^d   Wanke, Bodo ^c   Evangelista Costa, Solange P S ^a   Trilles, Luciana ^c   Nascimento, Jose Luiz M ^a   Medeiros, Rita ^a   Morales, Bernardina Pernarrieta ^c   De Carvalho Falei Bezerra, Claudia ^c   De Macêdo, Regina Célia Lima ^c   Ferreira, Silvana O ^a   Barbosa, Gláucia Gonçalves ^c   Perez, Mauricio A ^e   Nishikawa, Marília Martins ^b   Dos Santos Lazéra, Márcia ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Oswaldo Cruz Foundation   (Brazil)

^c Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Children; Cryptococcus gattii; Endemic mycosis; State of par ; VGII genotype

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 58049141103     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762008000800012     Document Type: Article

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