Molecular evidence that the range of the Vancouver Island outbreak of Cryptococcus gattii infection has expanded into the Pacific Northwest in the United States.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2009-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/597306PMID 19220140PMCID PMC2715219
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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