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    • Consensus Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Pneumocystis jirovecii 
      Pasic, Lana; Goterris, Lidia; Guerrero Murillo, Mercedes; Irinyi, Laszlo; Kan, Alex; Ponce, Carolina A.; Vargas Munita, Sergio; Martín Gómez, M. Teresa; Meyer, Wieland (MDPI, 2020)
      Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic human pathogenic fungus causing severe pneumonia mainly in immunocompromised hosts. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) remains the gold standard for genotyping of this unculturable ...
    • Differential antifungal activity of human and cryptococcal melanins with structural discrepancies 
      Correa, Néstor; Covarrubias Gallardo, Cristián; Rodas, Paula I.; Hermosilla Díaz, Germán; Olate, Veronica R.; Valdes, Cristian; Meyer, Wieland; Magne, Fabien; Tapia, Cecilia V. (Frontiers Media SA, 2017)
      Melanin is a pigment found in all biological kingdoms, and plays a key role in protection against ultraviolet radiation, oxidizing agents, and ionizing radiation damage. Melanin exerts an antimicrobial activity against ...
    • Molecular typing of IberoAmerican Cryptococcus neoformans isolates 
      Meyer, Wieland; Castañeda, Alexandra; Jackson, Stuart; Huynh, Matthew; Castañeda, Elizabeth (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2003)
      A network was established to acquire basic knowledge of Cryptococcus neoformans in IberoAmerican countries. To this effect, 340 clinical, veterinary, and environmental isolates from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, ...