Low diversity cryptococcus neoformans variety grubii multilocus sequence types from Thailand are consistent with an ancestral African origin

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Simwami, Sitali P ^a   Khayhan, Kantarawee ^b,c   Henk, Daniel A ^a   Aanensen, David M ^a   Boekhout, Teun ^b   Hagen, Ferry ^b   Brouwer, Annemarie E ^d,e   Harrison, Thomas S ^f   Donnelly, Christl A ^a   Fisher, Matthew C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^f ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS PATIENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA EXTRACTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THAILAND; AFRICA; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG COMBINATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; FUNGAL DNA;

AFRICA; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, CRYPTOCOCCAL; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THAILAND;

EID: 79955766878     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001343     Document Type: Article

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