Article
Most environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (serotype A) are not lethal for mice.
Infection and immunity - 1 Aug 2009
Litvintseva Anastasia P, Mitchell Thomas G
Abstract excerpt
Most cases of cryptococcosis are caused by Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (serotype A), which is widespread in the environment, where it is primarily associated with pigeon excreta. A number of molecular epidemiological studies indicate that many environmental and clinical isolates of seroty...
Topics
- Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
- Animals
- Cluster Analysis
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Fungal
- Environmental Microbiology
- Genotype
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mycological Typing Techniques
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Retroelements
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Survival Analysis