Publications

[1st environmental isolation of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii in argentina].	two strains of c. neoformans var. gattii serotype b were isolated from a park in buenos aires city, argentina. samples were collected in spring, rubbing with swabs on the inner hollow of eucalyptus spp. and other trees, which were not identified at the collection moment. samples were swabbed directly onto cafeic acid with antibiotic agar, then incubated at 28 degrees c and observed daily for a week. isolates were recovered from cafeic acid medium showing characteristic colonies of the species th ...	2003	12920995
isolation of cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcus gattii from trunk hollows of living trees in buenos aires city, argentina.	the aim of this work was to describe the distribution of the members of the cryptococcus species complex (cryptococcus neoformans and c. gattii) in hollows of trees from seven parks in buenos aires city, to determine the serotypes and genotypes of these environmental isolates and to compare them with the ones reported in the 2001 survey. four hundred and eighty nine samples were collected by swabbing all trees which had hollows or fissures in the seven parks studied. each tree was sampled once d ...	2009	18654914