Molecular epidemiology and microbiological characteristics of Cryptococcus gattii VGII isolates from China.

• Main Authors: Xuelei Zang (Author), Weixin Ke (Author), Lifeng Wang (Author), Hua Wu (Author), Yemei Huang (Author), Hengyu Deng (Author), Meng Zhou (Author), Ningxin Wu (Author), Xinying Xue (Author), Dingxia Shen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii) is a fungal pathogen that once caused an outbreak of cryptococcosis on Vancouver Island, and had spread worldwide, while few data were available in China. In this study, seven clinical isolates of C. gattii VGII were collected from 19 hospitals, Multi-locus Sequence T...