Geographically structured populations of Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii in Asia correlate with HIV status and show a clonal population structure.

Geographically structured populations of Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii in Asia correlate with HIV status and show a clonal population structure.

Cryptococcosis is an important fungal disease in Asia with an estimated 140,000 new infections annually the majority of which occurs in patients suffering from HIV/AIDS. Cryptococcus neoformans variety grubii (serotype A) is the major causative agent of this disease. In the present study, multilocus...

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Main Authors: Kantarawee Khayhan, Ferry Hagen, Weihua Pan, Sitali Simwami, Matthew C Fisher, Retno Wahyuningsih, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Anuradha Chowdhary, Reiko Ikeda, Saad J Taj-Aldeen, Ziauddin Khan, Margaret Ip, Darma Imran, Ridhawati Sjam, Pojana Sriburee, Wanqing Liao, Kunyaluk Chaicumpar, Varaporn Vuddhakul, Wieland Meyer, Luciana Trilles, Leo J J van Iersel, Jacques F Meis, Corné H W Klaassen, Teun Boekhout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3760895?pdf=render

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