Volume 16, Number 7—July 2010
Dispatch
Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in Man, Japan, 2007
Koh Okamoto, Shuji Hatakeyama
, Satoru Itoyama, Yoko Nukui, Yusuke Yoshino, Takatoshi Kitazawa, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Reiko Ikeda, Takashi Sugita, and Kazuhiko Koike
, Satoru Itoyama, Yoko Nukui, Yusuke Yoshino, Takatoshi Kitazawa, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Reiko Ikeda, Takashi Sugita, and Kazuhiko KoikeTable
Multilocus sequence typing profiles of 2 Cryptococcus gattii strains, Japan, 2007*
| Strain | Multilocus sequence typing profile† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SXI1α | IGS | TEF1 | GPD1 | LAC1 | CAP10 | PLB1 | MPD1 | HOG1 | BWC1 | TOR1 | |
| JP01 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| R265 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
*JP01, strain from Japan (patient in this study); R265, Vancouver Island genotype VGIIa strain.
†GenBank accession nos. for multilocus sequencing typing alleles: SXI1α_18, DQ096308; IGS_4, DQ096314; TEF1_7, DQ096364; GPD1_1, DQ096377; LAC1_4, DQ096400; CAP10_1, DQ096416; PLB1_1, DQ096343; MPD1_5, DQ096334; HOG1_1, DQ096456; BWC1_1, DQ096428; TOR1_1, DQ096470.
