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[Molecular characterization of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from HIV patients, Guayaquil, Ecuador].
Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud - 1 Sept 2017
Sánchez Sunny, Zambrano Dolores, García Maylen, Bedoya César, Fernández Carlos, Illnait-Zaragozí María Teresa
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INTRODUCTION: Neurocryptococcosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that represents a high cost in human lives and for the economy of countries. Its causative agent, the Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex, has a sexual and an asexual phase, four major serotypes and seven molecular varieties with phenotypic, clinical-epidemiological and antifungal susceptibility differences. OBJECTIVE:...
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