Article
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from 7 hospitals in China.
BMC microbiology - 30 Mar 2020
Jin Liang, Cao Jing-Rong, Xue Xin-Ying, Wu Hua, Wang Li-Feng, Guo Ling, Shen Ding-Xia
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Infection, even outbreak, caused by Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii) has been reported in Canada and the United States, but there were sparsely-reported cases of C. gattii in China. Our interest in occurrence, clinical manifestation, laboratory identification and molecular characteriza...
Topics
- Adult
- Bacterial Proteins
- China
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus gattii
- Fluconazole
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Genotype
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Male
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Middle Aged
- Multilocus Sequence Typing
- Mycological Typing Techniques