Viability and molecular authentication of Coccidioides spp. isolates from the Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo culture collection, Brazil Viabilidade e autenticação molecular de isolados de Coccidioides spp. da coleção de culturas do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Brasil

• Main Authors: Sarah Desirée Barbosa Cavalcanti, Mônica Scarpelli Martinelli Vidal, Maria da Glória Teixeira de Sousa, Gilda Maria Barbaro Del Negro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2013
• Subjects: Culture collection; Coccidioides; Viability; Molecular identification; Long-term preservation; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Sob’
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/590be64435ab4ed0b7c03a3982d00f71

Coccidioidomycosis is an emerging fungal disease in Brazil; adequate maintenance and authentication of Coccidioides isolates are essential for research into genetic diversity of the environmental organisms, as well as for understanding the human disease. Seventeen Coccidioides isolates maintained un...