Geographically Structured Populations of Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii in Asia Correlate with HIV Status and Show a Clonal Population Structure

• Main Authors: Kantarawee Khayhan, Ferry Hagen, Weihua Pan, Sitali Simwami, Matthew C. Fisher, Retno Wahyuningsih, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Anuradha Chowdhary, Reiko Ikeda, Saad J. Taj-Aldeen, Ziauddin Khan, Margaret Ip, Darma Imran, Ridhawati Sjam, Pojana Sriburee, Wanqing Liao, Kunyaluk Chaicumpar, Varaporn Vuddhakul, Wieland Meyer, Luciana Trilles, Leo J.J. van Iersel, Jacques F. Meis, Corné H.W. Klaassen, Teun Boekhout
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84883443243&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/47655
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Cryptococcosis is an important fungal disease in Asia with an estimated 140,000 new infections annually the majority of which occurs in patients suffering from HIV/AIDS. Cryptococcus neoformans variety grubii (serotype A) is the major causative agent of this disease. In the present study, multilocus...