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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2348-2350, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2348-2350.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Antifungal Susceptibilities, Varieties, and Electrophoretic Karyotypes of Clinical Isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela

Belinda M. Calvo,1 Arnaldo L. Colombo,2 Olga Fischman,2 A. Santiago,3 L. Thompson,4 Marcia Lazera,5 Flavio Telles,6 Kazutaka Fukushima,7 Kazuko Nishimura,7 Reiko Tanaka,7 Makoto Myiajy,7 and M. Luiza Moretti-Branchini8,*

Universidad del Zulia-Luz, Maracaibo,1 and Hospital Clínico de Caracas, Caracas,3 Venezuela; Clínica Santa María, Santiago, Chile4; Chiba University, Chiba, Japan7; and Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro,5 Universidade Federal de Paraná, Curitiba,6 and Universidade Federal de São Paulo2 and Universidade Estadual de Campinas,8 Campinas, Brazil

Received 10 July 2000/Returned for modification 28 August 2000/Accepted 8 April 2001

One hundred clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and non-HIV-infected patients from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela were separated according to varieties and tested for antifungal susceptibility. A high susceptibility to antifungal agents was observed among all the isolates. The electrophoretic karyotyping of 51 strains revealed good discrimination among Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans strains.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Infectious Diseases Division, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Phone: 55-19-3788-7734. Fax: 55-19-3236-2092. E-mail: moretti{at}hc.unicamp.br.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2001, p. 2348-2350, Vol. 39, No. 6
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2348-2350.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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