Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Cryptococcus neoformans Strains and Infection in Apparently Immunocompetent Patients, China

Jianghan Chen*, Ashok Varma†, Mara R. Diaz‡, Anastasia P. Litvintseva§, Kurt K. Wollenberg†, and Kyung J. Kwon-Chung†

Author affiliations: *Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; †National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ‡University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; §Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA;

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Virulence in mice. Mice were intranasally infected with 5 × 107 yeast cells from the 3 Chinese Cryptococcus neoformans strains, CHC114, CHC193, and CHC 186, and compared with H99 and the reference strains VNI and VNII for survival.

Figure 5. Virulence in mice. Mice were intranasally infected with 5 × 10⁷ yeast cells from the 3 Chinese Cryptococcus neoformans strains, CHC114, CHC193, and CHC 186, and compared with H99 and the reference strains VNI and VNII for survival.

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