Molecular Characterization and Antifungal Susceptibility Testing of Sequentially Obtained Clinical Cryptococcus deneoformans and Cryptococcus neoformans Isolates from Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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AIM: To retrospectively investigate the epidemiology of cryptococcosis in Ljubljana, Slovenia. METHODOLOGY: Forty-six sequentially obtained isolates from 19 patients were subjected to amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) genotyping, microsatellite typing, mating- and serotype PCRs and antifungal susceptibility testing. RESULTS: Majority of the isolates were Cryptococcus deneoformans (n = 29/46; 63%)...

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