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Microsatellite typing of clinical and environmental Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii isolates from Cuba shows multiple genetic lineages.
PloS one - 9 Feb 2010
Illnait-Zaragozi Maria-Teresa, Martínez-Machín Gerardo F, Fernández-Andreu Carlos M, Boekhout Teun, Meis Jacques F, Klaassen Corné H W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Human cryptococcal infections have been associated with bird droppings as a likely source of infection. Studies toward the local and global epidemiology of Cryptococcus spp. have been hampered by the lack of rapid, discriminatory, and exchangeable molecular typing methods. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We selected nine microsatellite markers for high-resolution fingerprinting from the genome of C....
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