Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIb infection in Japan
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Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIb infection in Japan.
This report describes a case of Cryptococcus gattii VGIIb infection of the pulmonary and central nervous systems in an immunocompetent Japanese man with a travel history, and it hypothesizes the place where he was infected with C. gattii using the genotype information.
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Mycology Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2185-6486,2186-165X
DOI: 10.3314/mmj.55.e51