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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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