Emergence and pathogenicity of highly virulent Cryptococcus gattii genotypes in the Northwest United States

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Byrnes III, Edmond J ^a   Li, Wenjun ^a   Lewit, Yonathan ^a   Ma, Hansong ^b   Voelz, Kerstin ^b   Ren, Ping ^c   Carter, Dee A ^d   Chaturvedi, Vishnu ^c   Bildfell, Robert J ^e   May, Robin C ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; MURINAE;

EID: 77954075537     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000850     Document Type: Article

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