Emergence and Pathogenicity of Highly Virulent Cryptococcus gattii Genotypes in the Northwest United States

• Edmond J. Byrnes III ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Edmond J. Byrnes III, Wenjun Li, Yonathan Lewit

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Wenjun Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Edmond J. Byrnes III, Wenjun Li, Yonathan Lewit

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Yonathan Lewit ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Edmond J. Byrnes III, Wenjun Li, Yonathan Lewit

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Hansong Ma,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathobiology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Kerstin Voelz,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathobiology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Ping Ren,

  Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Dee A. Carter,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Vishnu Chaturvedi,

  Affiliation Mycology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Robert J. Bildfell,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Robin C. May,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Pathobiology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Joseph Heitman

  * E-mail: heitm001@duke.edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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