Low diversity Cryptococcus neoformans variety grubii multilocus sequence types from Thailand are consistent with an ancestral African origin.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on April 28, 2011

Authors

Sitali P Simwami1, Kantarawee Khayhan, Daniel A Henk, David M Aanensen, Teun Boekhout, Ferry Hagen, Annemarie E Brouwer, Thomas S Harrison, Christl A Donnelly, Matthew C Fisher

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.

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