title: New ITS genotype of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from an AIDS patient in Brazil.
abstract: Based on combinations of nine variable nucleotides at nine different base positions in the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region, Cryptococcus gattii strains were classified into six genotypes. A new genotype of C. gattii, designated as ITS type 8, was isolated from an AIDS patient in Brazil. The ITS type 8 strain is closely related to the ITS type 4 strain, which has been frequently isolated in Brazil and the USA, but which shows ITS-signatured nucleotide difference at each nucleotide position. The ITS type 8 strain is also differentiated from all heretofore reported ITS types of C. gattii strains in the RAPD band patterns and IGS sequence information.
authors.affiliation: Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, 1-8-1, Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba-city, Chiba 260-8673, Japan.
authors.forename: Yingqian
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: Hiroko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Maria Luiza
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Moretti
authors.forename: Yuzuru
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mikami
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000382:microbiology*; D001938:Brazil; D003454:Cryptococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer