Molecular characterization of Cryptococcus neoformans isolates from HIV patients, Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Published in: Biomédica
• Main Authors: Sunny Sánchez, Dolores Zambrano, Maylen García, César Bedoya, Carlos Fernández, María Teresa Illnait-Zaragozí
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2017
• Subjects: Cryptococcus neoformans; cryptococcosis; HIV; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; genotype; Ecuador; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Guayaquil
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v37i3.3322; https://doaj.org/article/f09bed3a838142c98cdea1b4f8e1fa6c

Introduction: Neurocryptococcosis is an opportunistic fungal infection that represents a high cost in human lives and for the economy of countries. Its causative agent, the Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex, has a sexual and an asexual phase, four major serotypes and seven...