New ITS genotype of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from an AIDS patient in Brazil.

doi:10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00101.x

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New ITS genotype of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from an AIDS patient in Brazil.

Microbiology and immunology - 1 Feb 2009

Kang Yingqian, Tanaka Hiroko, Moretti Maria Luiza, Mikami Yuzuru

Abstract excerpt

Based on combinations of nine variable nucleotides at nine different base positions in the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region, Cryptococcus gattii strains were classified into six genotypes. A new genotype of C. gattii, designated as ITS type 8, was isolated from an AIDS patient in Brazil. The ITS type 8 strain is closely related to the ITS type 4 strain, which has been frequently isolated in Brazil and the USA, but which...

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AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Brazil
Cryptococcus
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA, Fungal
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
Genotype
Humans
Male
Phylogeny
Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Young Adult

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PMID: 19291095
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00101.x

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