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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Meyer, Wieland ; Castañeda, Alexandra ; Jackson, Stuart ; Huynh, Matthew ; Castañeda, Elizabeth
Meyer, Wieland ; Castañeda, Alexandra ; Jackson, Stuart ; Huynh, Matthew ; Castañeda, Elizabeth Less -
Corporate Authors:
IberoAmerican Cryptococcal Study Group
Description:
A network was established to acquire basic knowledge of Cryptococcus neoformans in IberoAmerican countries. To this effect, 340 clinical, veterinary, and environmental isolates from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Spain were typed by using M13 polymerase chain reaction-fingerprinting and orotidine monophosphate pyrophosphorylase (URA5) gene restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with HhaI and Sau96I in a double digest. Both techniques grouped all isolates into eight previously established molecular types. The majority of the isolates, 68.2% (n=232), were VNI (var. grubii, serotype A), which accords with the fact that this variety causes most human cryptococcal infections worldwide. A smaller proportion, 5.6% (n=19), were VNII (var. grubii, serotype A); 4.1% (n=14), VNIII (AD hybrid), with 9 isolates having a polymorphism in the URA5 gene; 1.8% (n=6), VNIV (var. neoformans, serotype D); 3.5% (n=12), VGI; 6.2% (n=21), VGII; 9.1% (n=31), VGIII, and 1.5% (n=5) VGIV, with all four VG types containing var. gatii serotypes B and C isolates.
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Adult Aged Animals Bacterial Typing Techniques Cryptococcosis DNA Fingerprinting Female Goats Humans Molecular Epidemiology Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase Parrots Phylogeny Polymorphism, Genetic Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length Research
Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 9(2):189-195
Pubmed ID:
12603989
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC2901947
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Central America ; South America ; Spain
Central America ; South America ; Spain Less -
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14008/cdc_14008_DS1.pdf
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