Native trees of the Northeast Argentine: Natural hosts of the Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii species complex

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 188-192

  Cattana, Maria Emilia ^a   Sosa, María de los Ángeles ^a   Fernández, Mariana ^a   Rojas, Florencia ^a   Mangiaterra, Magdalena ^a   Giusiano, Gustavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus gattii; Ecological niche; Genotype; Grevillea robusta; Peltophorum dubium; Tabebuia avellanedae

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GREVILLEA ROBUSTA; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; PELTOPHORUM DUBIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TABEBUIA AVELLANEDAE; TREE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; GREVILLEA ROBUSTA; PELTOPHORUM DUBIUM; TABEBUIA AVELLANEDAE;

ARGENTINA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOTYPE; TREES;

EID: 84927693565     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: 21739188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.riam.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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