Isolation of highly encapsulated Cryptococcus neoformans serotype B from a patient in New York City
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 23 (1) , 186-188
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.23.1.186-188.1986
Abstract
For the first time, Cryptococcus neoformans serotype B was isolated from a patient in New York City, not a region endemic for B/C serotypes. The isolate was morphologically unusual, with cells several times larger in infected tissue than those characteristic of the yeastlike pathogen. This anomaly may be a problem in the identification of similar isolates. Two serotype differentiation media and a slide agglutination test were used for definitive serotype identification.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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