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Massimo Cogliati1, Nagarathna Chandrashekar, Maria Carmela Esposto
1Department of Public Health-Microbiology-Virology, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy. massimo.cogliati@unimi.it
Abstract:
During a retrospective study on cryptococcosis carried out in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, four Cryptococcus gattii strains were isolated from one HIV-positive and three HIV-negative patients, two of which had unknown predisposing conditions. Serotyping and genotyping showed that the isolates were C. gattii serotype C, mating-type α and genotype VGIV. All the isolates were identical by multilocus sequence typing, but presented a low similarity compared with a set of 17 C. gattii global control strains. The comparison with a larger number of previously reported C. gattii strains, including African isolates, revealed a close relationship between Indian and African serotype-C isolates.
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