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Serial isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from patients with AIDS differ in virulence for mice.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 1998
Fries B C, Casadevall A
Abstract excerpt
Serial isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from patients with chronic infection can exhibit minor karyotype changes as a result of chromosome length polymorphism (CLP). This study investigated whether serial C. neoformans isolates with CLP from 4 patients with AIDS exhibited biologic and phenotypic differences. CLP permits the identification of serial isolates in murine mixed infection. The parameters studied...
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