Article
Molecular epidemiology of cryptococcal genotype VNIc/ST5 in Siriraj Hospital, Thailand.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Hatthakaroon Chanin, Pharkjaksu Sujiraphong, Chongtrakool Piriyaporn, Suwannakarn Kamol, Kiratisin Pattarachai, Ngamskulrungroj Popchai
Abstract excerpt
Despite the strong association between Cryptococcus neoformans infection and the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status of patients globally, most cryptococcosis cases in Far East Asia occur in non-HIV individuals. Molecular epidemiological studies, using multilocus sequence typing (MLST), have shown that more than 95% of cryptococcal strains belong to a specific subtype of VNI. However, this association has...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Comorbidity
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Infections
- Hospitals, University