Temperate climate niche for Cryptococcus gattii in Northern Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 172-174

  Chowdhary, Anuradha ^a   Randhawa, Harbans S ^a   Boekhout, Teun ^b   Hagen, Ferry ^c   Klaassen, Corné H ^c   Meis, Jacques F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ALLELE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; CASTANEA SATIVA; CLIMATE; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DOUGLAS FIR; FOREST; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; JUGLANS REGIA; LETTER; MORUS ALBA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; TEMPERATE CLIMATE; WOOD;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EUROPE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TREES;

EID: 84856577795     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.111190     Document Type: Letter

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