Journal
VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 177, Issue 3-4, Pages 409-413Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2015.03.008
Keywords
Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; MIST; Goats; Mouflon
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- Italian Ministero della Salute [IZS SA 01/11]
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In this study, we examined in Sardinia the brain of 555 autochthonous sheep, 50 goats, and 4 mouflons which were found affected by neurological signs. We found 6 goats and one mouflon with meningoencephalitis caused by Cryptococcus sp. There was no evidence of cryptococcal infections in any of the examined sheep. MIST genotyping on Cryptococcus sp. isolates identified Cryptococcus gatti genotype AFLP4/VGI and Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans genotype AFLP2/VNIV. Phylogenetically, all Cryptococcus gattii isolates fell within the autochthonous animal, human and environmental Mediterranean isolate cluster, forming a distinct branch along with environmental strains from Alicante, in the southern Mediterranean coast of Spain. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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