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First environmental isolation of Cryptococcus gattii, genotype AFLP5, from India and a global review.
Mycoses - 1 May 2013
Chowdhary A, Prakash A, Randhawa H S, Kathuria S, Hagen F, Klaassen C H, Meis J F
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We report the first environmental isolation from India of Cryptococcus gattii, genotype amplified fragment length polymorphism 5 (AFLP5), which is one of the rarely reported genotypes of this pathogen. It originated from decayed wood inside a trunk hollow of Manilkara hexandra, a native tree in Delhi. We investigated 101 isolates of C. gattii, originating from 556 samples of decayed wood inside trunk hollows of...
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