Multilocus sequence typing of serially collected isolates of Cryptococcus from HIV-infected patients in South Africa.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on March 19, 2014

Authors

Marelize Van Wyk1, Nelesh P Govender2, Thomas G Mitchell3, Anastasia P Litvintseva4, GERMS-SA

Author Affiliations

1: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Centre for Opportunistic, Tropical and Hospital Infections, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Centre for Opportunistic, Tropical and Hospital Infections, Johannesburg, South Africa Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
3: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA tom.mitchell@duke.edu.
4: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

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