Environmental isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii from living trees in Guindy National Park, Chennai, South India

被引：22

作者：

Kumar, C. P. Girish ^{[1
]}

Prabu, D. ^{[1
]}

Mitani, Hiroki ^{[2
]}

Mikami, Yuzuru ^{[2
]}

Menon, Thangam ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Madras, Dept Microbiol, Dr AL Mudaliar Post Grad Inst Basic Med Sci, Madras 600113, Tamil Nadu, India

[2] Chiba Univ, Pathogen Fungi & Microbial Toxicoses Res Ctr, Chiba 280, Japan

来源：

MYCOSES | 2010年 / 53卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1111/j.1439-0507.2009.01699.x

中图分类号：

R75 [皮肤病学与性病学];

学科分类号：

100206 ;

摘要：

P>We report for the first time the environmental isolation of Cryptococcus neoformans from decaying wood and bark debris of living trees in Guindy National Park, Chennai, South India. Of the 40 trees screened, four isolates of Cryptococcus species were recovered of which two were Cryptococcus gattii, one was C. neoformans and one was untypable. The isolation of C. neoformans from Eucalyptus globulus and C. gattii from Cassia marginata in this study constitutes the first record of the natural occurrence of C. neoformans varieties in these tree species anywhere in the world. The isolation of C. gattii from Syzygium cumini represents the first isolation from South India.

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