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Natural Environmental Sources of Cryptococcus Neoformans Var. Gattii

Overview
Journal J Clin Microbiol
Specialty Microbiology
Date 1996 May 1
PMID 8727913
Citations 29
Authors
T C Sorrell
A G Brownlee
P Ruma
R Malik
T J Pfeiffer
D H Ellis
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Abstract

We sought evidence for new environmental sources of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of isolates from 29 animals with a restricted territorial range in five Australian states. Twenty-three of the 29 isolates and 45 of 45 eucalypt isolates tested previously exhibited one RAPD profile, VGI. RAPD profile VGII was identified in 6 of 17 isolates from domesticated species but in none of 12 native species. Four VGII isolates originated from an area of Western Australia with no natural stands of known eucalypt host, indicating the existence of at least one unrecognized natural source of C. neoformans var. gattii.

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