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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 4, Pages 2080-2086Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.4.2080-2086.2003
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Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast that is currently divided into three varieties, five serotypes, and eight molecular types. The following report describes the use of PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the phospholipase B gene (PLBI) as a simple tool to differentiate between C. neoformans subgroups. A PLBI fragment, 1,970 bp, was amplified and digested with either AvaI or HindIII. Both sets of profiles grouped the isolates into their respective varieties, but only the AvaI profiles allowed for the identification of the eight molecular types via the corresponding RFLP profiles A1 to A8. Digestion of the same fragments with HindIII resulted in RFLP profiles H1 to H5, which distinguished only between serotype A, AD, D, and B/C. Neither enzyme distinguished serotype B from serotype C. The serotype AD profile was a composite of the serotype A and D profiles. Further investigation showed that the serotype AD isolates used in this study are heterozygous, with one allele of PLBI originating from a serotype A parent and the other from a serotype D parent.
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