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Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
Letter

Cryptococcus gattii, Florida, USA, 2011

Rajesh Kunadharaju, Ulyee Choe, Julie R. Harris, Shawn R. Lockhart, and John N. GreeneComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA (R. Kunadharaju, U. Choe, J.N. Greene); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.R. Harris, S.R. Lockhart); and Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa (J.N. Greene)

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Figure

Neighbor-joining dendrogram of FL isolate (B9588, in boldface) with other US isolates showing that the FL isolate is identical to the VGIIb isolates from the US Pacific Northwest. The dendrogram was constructed by using multilocus sequence typing (3). FL, Florida; OR, Oregon; WA, Washington; CA, California; GA, Georgia; NM, New Mexico.

Figure. . . Neighbor-joining dendrogram of FL isolate (B9588, in boldface) with other US isolates showing that the FL isolate is identical to the VGIIb isolates from the US Pacific Northwest. The dendrogram was constructed by using multilocus sequence typing (3). FL, Florida; OR, Oregon; WA, Washington; CA, California; GA, Georgia; NM, New Mexico.

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