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Global Spread of Human Chromoblastomycosis Is Driven by Recombinant Cladophialophora carrionii and Predominantly Clonal Fonsecaea Species.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Jan 2015
Deng Shuwen, Tsui Clement K M, Gerrits van den Ende A H G, Yang Liyue, Najafzadeh Mohammad Javad, Badali Hamid, Li Ruoyu, Hagen Ferry, Meis Jacques F, Sun Jiufeng, Dolatabadi Somayeh, Papierok Bernard, Pan Weihua, de Hoog G S, Liao Wanqing
Abstract excerpt
Global distribution patterns of Cladophialophora carrionii, agent of human chromoblastomycosis in arid climates of Africa, Asia, Australia, Central-and South-America, were compared with similar data of the vicarious Fonsecaea spp., agents of the disease in tropical rain forests. Population diversities among 73 C. carrionii strains and 60 strains of three Fonsecaea species were analyzed for rDNA ITS, partial...
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