Environmental isolation and characterisation of Cryptococcus species from living trees in Havana city, Cuba

Mycoses

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Illnait Zaragozi M T ^a   Martinez Machin G F ^a   Fernandez Andreu C M ^a   Perurena Lancha, M R ^a   Theelen, B ^b   Boekhout, T ^b   Meis, J F ^c,d   Klaassen, C H ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AFLP; Cryptococcus; Environment; Identification

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS HEVEANENSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CUBA; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CUBA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; TREES;

AVES; CACTACEAE; FUNGI;

EID: 84859975530     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2012.02168.x     Document Type: Article

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