Cryptococcus gattii VGII in a Plathymenia reticulata hollow in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Mycoses

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 414-418

  Anzai, Mariana Caselli ^a   Dos Santos Lazéra, Márcia ^b   Wanke, Bodo ^b   Trilles, Luciana ^b   Dutra, Valéria ^c   De Paula, Daphine Ariadne Jesus ^c   Nakazato, Luciano ^c   Takahara, Doracilde Terumi ^a   Simi, Walquirya Borges ^a   Hahn, Rosane Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; C. gattii; Cryptococcus sp; P. reticulata; Tree hollow; VGII

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOTYPE; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; PLATHYMENIA RETICULATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FABACEAE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FABACEAE; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; PLATHYMENIA RETICULATA;

BRAZIL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FABACEAE; GENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; TREES;

EID: 84903200832     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12177     Document Type: Article

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