Molecular characterization of Cryptococcus gattii genotype AFLP6/VGII isolated from woody debris of divi-divi (Caesalpinia coriaria), Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 193-196

  Hagen, Ferry ^a,b   Chowdhary, Anuradha ^c   Prakash, Anupam ^c   Yntema, Jan Bart ^b   Meis, Jacques F ^a,b  

^a CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Amplified fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting; Caesalpinia coriaria; Cryptococcus gattii; Environmental sampling; Multi locus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CAESALPINIA; CAESALPINIA CORIARIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MATING TYPE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; WOOD DEBRIS; CARIBBEAN; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; WOOD;

CAESALPINIA CORIARIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII;

CAESALPINIA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR TYPING; WOOD;

EID: 84927693356     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: 21739188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.riam.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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