Molecular epidemiology of Italian clinical Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii isolates

Medical Mycology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 499-506

  Cogliati, Massimo ^a   Zamfirova, Ralika R ^a   Tortorano, Anna Maria ^a   Viviani, Maria Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Genotyping; Italian isolates; Multilocus sequence typing; Var. grubii

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS GUBRII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ITALY; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; THAILAND; UGANDA; UNITED STATES;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 84879939346     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2012.751642     Document Type: Article

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