Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of clinically and environmentally isolated Cryptococcus neoformans in Nagasaki.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on December 01, 1995

Authors

Y Yamamoto1, S Kohno, H Koga, H Kakeya, K Tomono, M Kaku, T Yamazaki, M Arisawa, K Hara

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1: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan.

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