Geographically Structured Populations of Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii in Asia Correlate with HIV Status and Show a Clonal Population Structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Khayhan, Kantarawee ^a,b,c   Hagen, Ferry ^b,d   Pan, Weihua ^e   Simwami, Sitali ^f   Fisher, Matthew C ^f   Wahyuningsih, Retno ^g,h   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ⁱ   Chowdhary, Anuradha ^j   Ikeda, Reiko ^k   Taj Aldeen, Saad J ^l   Khan, Ziauddin ^m   Ip, Margaret ⁿ   Imran, Darma ^g,o   Sjam, Ridhawati ^g   Sriburee, Pojana ^p   Liao, Wanqing ^e   Chaicumpar, Kunyaluk ^q   Vuddhakul, Varaporn ^r   Meyer, Wieland ^s   Trilles, Luciana ^s,t   van Iersel, Leo J J ^u   Meis, Jacques F ^d,v   Klaassen, Corné H W ^d   Boekhout, Teun ^b,c,e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHAYAO   (Thailand)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^h CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

ⁱ POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^j UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^k MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^m KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

ⁿ CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^o CIPTO MANGUNKUSUMO HOSPITAL   (Indonesia)

^p Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^q KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^r PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^s UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^t Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^u Centre for Mathematics and Informatics   (Netherlands)

^v RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ISAVUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLONAL VARIATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VARIETY GRUBII; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAST; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GEOGRAPHY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84883443243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072222     Document Type: Article

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