Clonality and α-a Recombination in the Australian Cryptococcus gattii VGII Population - An Emerging Outbreak in Australia

• Fabian Carriconde,

  Affiliation Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Emerging Infections and Biosecurity Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Félix Gilgado,

  Affiliation Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Emerging Infections and Biosecurity Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Ian Arthur,

  Affiliation PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

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• David Ellis,

  Affiliation SA Pathology at Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Richard Malik,

  Affiliation Centre for Veterinary Education, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Nathalie van de Wiele,

  Affiliations Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Emerging Infections and Biosecurity Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Hogeschool, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Vincent Robert,

  Affiliation CBS-Fungal Biodiversity Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Bart J. Currie,

  Affiliation Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Northern Territory Clinical School and Infectious Diseases Department, Royal Darwin Hospital, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Wieland Meyer

  * E-mail: w.meyer@usyd.edu.au

  Affiliation Molecular Mycology Research Laboratory, Sydney Medical School - Westmead Hospital, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead Millennium Institute, Sydney Emerging Infections and Biosecurity Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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