title: Cryptococcus gattii serotype-C strains isolated in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
abstract: During a retrospective study on cryptococcosis carried out in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, four Cryptococcus gattii strains were isolated from one HIV-positive and three HIV-negative patients, two of which had unknown predisposing conditions. Serotyping and genotyping showed that the isolates were C. gattii serotype C, mating-type α and genotype VGIV. All the isolates were identical by multilocus sequence typing, but presented a low similarity compared with a set of 17 C. gattii global control strains. The comparison with a larger number of previously reported C. gattii strains, including African isolates, revealed a close relationship between Indian and African serotype-C isolates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health-Microbiology-Virology, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy. massimo.cogliati@unimi.it
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cogliati
authors.forename: Nagarathna
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chandrashekar
authors.forename: Maria Carmela
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Esposto
authors.forename: Akepati
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chandramuki
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Petrini
authors.forename: Maria Anna
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Viviani
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D056285:Cryptococcus gattii / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D010802:Phylogeny; D012189:Retrospective Studies