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.
Cryptococcus gattii serotype-C strains isolated in Bangalore, Karnataka, India / M. Cogliati, N. Chandrashekar, M.C. Esposto, A. Chandramuki, B. Petrini, M.A. Viviani. - In: MYCOSES. - ISSN 0933-7407. - 55:3(2012 May), pp. 262-268. [10.1111/j.1439-0507.2011.02082.x]
Cryptococcus gattii serotype-C strains isolated in Bangalore, Karnataka, India
M. CogliatiPrimo
;M.C. Esposto;
2012
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.
Pubblicazioni consigliate
I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
