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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
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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 environmental populations of C neoformans can increase our understanding of the molecular epidemiology of cryptococcosis....
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