Consensus multi-locus sequence typing scheme for Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii

Medical Mycology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 561-570

  Meyer, Wieland ^a   Aanensen, David M ^b   Boekhout, Teun ^c   Cogliati, Massimo ^d   Diaz, Mara R ^e   Esposto, Maria Carmela ^d   Fisher, Matthew ^b   Gilgado, Felix ^a   Hagen, Ferry ^c   Kaocharoen, Sirada ^a,f   Litvintseva, Anastasia P ^g   Mitchell, Thomas G ^g   Simwami, Sitali P ^b   Trilles, Luciana ^a,h   Viviani, Maria Anna ^d   Kwon Chung, June ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; Genotyping; Multi locus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

CAPSULAR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 59; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACCASE; OROTIDINE MONOPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CONSENSUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SEROTYPE; STANDARDIZATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 70849101460     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780902953886     Document Type: Review

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