Determination of epidemiology of clinically isolated cryptococcus neoformans strains in Japan by Multilocus sequence typing

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-55

  Umeyama, Takashi ^a   Ohno, Hideaki ^a   Minamoto, Fujihiko ^b   Takagi, Taeko ^c   Tanamachi, Chiyoko ^d   Tanabe, Koichi ^a   Kaneko, Yukihiro ^a   Yamagoe, Satoshi ^a   Kishi, Kazuma ^e   Fujii, Takeshi ^f   Takemura, Hiromu ^c   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^g   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAP59 GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GPD1 GENE; HUMAN; IGS1 GENE; JAPAN; LAC1 GENE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLB1 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOD1 GENE; URA5 GENE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874776341     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.66.51     Document Type: Article

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