First isolation of cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGII and Cryptococcus neoformans molecular type VNI from environmental sources in the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 662-664

  do PSE Costa, Solange ^a   dos S Lazéra, Márcia ^b   Santos, Wallace R A ^a   Morales, Bernardina P ^b   Bezerra, Cláudia C F ^b   Nishikawa, Marília M ^c   Barbosa, Gláucia G ^b   Trilles, Luciana ^b   do Nascimento, José L M ^a   Wanke, Bodo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^c Oswaldo Cruz Foundation   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bel ; Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; M; Par

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; SENNA; SENNA SIAMEA;

EID: 70149092179     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762009000400023     Document Type: Article

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