Cryptococcus gattii Infections in Multiple States Outside the US Pacific Northwest
Julie R. Harris
, Shawn R. Lockhart, Gail Sondermeyer, Duc J. Vugia, Matthew B. Crist, Melissa Tobin D’Angelo, Brenda Sellers, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Monear Makvandi, Chad Smelser, John Greene, Danielle Stanek, Kimberly Signs, Randall J. Nett, Tom Chiller, and Benjamin J. Park
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.R. Harris, S.R. Lockhart, R.J. Nett, T. Chiller, B.J. Park); California Department of Public Health, Richmond, California, USA (G. Sondemeyer, D.J. Vugia); Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta (M.B. Crist, M.T. D’Angelo); Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, Georgia, USA (B. Sellers, C. Franco-Paredes); Hospital Infantil Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico (C. Franco-Paredes); New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (M. Mkvandi, C. Smelser); Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA (J. Greene); Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (D. Stanek); Michigan Department of Community Health, Lansing, Michigan, USA (K. Signs); Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, Montana, USA (R.J. Nett)
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Figure. . . Neighbor-joining tree of US Cryptococcus gattii isolates from outside the US Pacific Northwest states of Washington and Oregon, 2009–2013. The tree was constructed by using multilocus sequence typing data from 7 unlinked loci. US Pacific Northwest C. gattii strains VGIIa, VGIIb, and VGIIc were added for reference.
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