Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from 7 hospitals in China

Abstract Background Infection, even outbreak, caused by Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii) has been reported in Canada and the United States, but there were sparsely-reported cases of C. gattii in China. Our interest in occurrence, clinical manifestation, laboratory identification and molecular charact...

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Published in:	BMC Microbiology
Main Authors:	Liang Jin, Jing-Rong Cao, Xin-Ying Xue, Hua Wu, Li-Feng Wang, Ling Guo, Ding-Xia Shen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2020-03-01
Subjects:	Cryptococcus gattii Genotype Antifungal agents Spectrum Differential protein
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-020-01752-4

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