Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008
Dispatch
AIDS Patient Death Caused by Novel Cryptococcus neoformans × C. gattii Hybrid
Table
Strain† | Mating type‡/serotype | AFLP/M13 genotype§ | Source | Country |
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CBS9172 | aA | AFLP1/VNI | Soil sample from garden of patient with neighboring bird colonies | Italy |
CBS8710 (H99) | αA | AFLP1/VNI | Patient with Hodgkin disease | United States |
CBS1622 | αB | AFLP4/VGI | Tumor | France |
CBS6992 | αB | AFLP4/VGI | Human | Unknown |
E566 | aB | AFLP4/VGI | Eucalyptus camaldulensis | Australia |
CBS10510 (WM276) | αB | AFLP4/VGI | Debris of E. tereticornis | Australia |
CBS10488 (AMC770616) | αBaD | AFLP8/NA | Human CSF | The Netherlands |
CBS10489 (AMC2010404) | αBaD | AFLP8/NA | Human CSF | The Netherlands |
CBS10490 (AMC2011225) | αBaD | AFLP8/NA | Human CSF | The Netherlands |
CBS10496 (LSPQ#308) | αA–B | AFLP9/NA | Blood of an HIV-positive patient | Canada |
*AFLP, amplified fragment length polymorphism; CBS, Fungal Biodiversity Centre; AMC, Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; NA, not applicable; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid.
†Origin and genetic composition of the strains are indicated.
‡ –, mating type unknown.
§AFLP fingerprint genotype (7), followed by corresponding M13 PCR fingerprint genotype (8).
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1These authors contributed equally to this article.
2Current affiliation: Netherlands Commission on Genetic Modification, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
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