Clonality and α-a recombination in the Australian Cryptococcus gattii VGII population - an emerging outbreak in Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Carriconde, Fabian ^a   Gilgado, Félix ^a   Arthur, Ian ^b   Ellis, David ^c   Malik, Richard ^d   van de Wiele, Nathalie ^a,e   Robert, Vincent ^f   Currie, Bart J ^g   Meyer, Wieland ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

^c WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^f CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^g ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSULAR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACCASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL CLONE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONE CELLS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 79952138039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016936     Document Type: Article

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