A Decade of Experience: Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia

Mycopathologia

Volumn 173, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 311-319

  Bartlett, Karen H ^a   Cheng, Po Yan ^a,b   Duncan, Colleen ^c   Galanis, Eleni ^d   Hoang, Linda ^d   Kidd, Sarah ^e   Lee, Min Kuang ^d   Lester, Sally ^f   MacDougall, Laura ^d   Mak, Sunny ^d   Morshed, Muhammad ^d   Taylor, Marsha ^d   Kronstad, James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^e WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f True North Veterinary Diagnostics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus gattii; Environmental hygiene; Epidemiology; Genotyping; Pathogenic factors; VGII

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CANADA; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DISEASE MODEL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOUSE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 84860547230     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-011-9475-x     Document Type: Article

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