Article
Genotypic diversity in clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from India using multilocus microsatellite and multilocus sequence typing.
Mycoses - 1 Mar 2020
Prakash Anupam, Sundar Gandhi, Sharma Brijesh, Hagen Ferry, Meis Jacques F, Chowdhary Anuradha
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cryptococcus neoformans is the leading cause of cryptococcal meningitis in HIV/AIDS patients. As infections in humans are predominantly caused by the inhalation of basidiospores from environmental sources, therefore, analysing the population structure of both clinical and environmenta...
Topics
- Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
- Antifungal Agents
- Base Sequence
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Environmental Microbiology
- Genetic Variation
- Genotyping Techniques
- Humans
- India
- Meningitis, Cryptococcal
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Multilocus Sequence Typing