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Kyung J. Kwon-Chung
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 209
Citations - 17694
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cryptococcus neoformans & Cryptococcosis. The author has an hindex of 70, co-authored 203 publications receiving 16269 citations.
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A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)
Sarah E. Kidd,Ferry Hagen,R L Tscharke,M Huynh,Karen H Bartlett,Murray Fyfe,Laura MacDougall,Teun Boekhout,Kyung J. Kwon-Chung,Wieland Meyer +9 more
TL;DR: The emergence of this usually tropical pathogen on Vancouver Island highlights the changing distribution of this genotype and emphasizes the importance of an ongoing collaborative effort to monitor the global epidemiology of this yeast.
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Improved diagnostic medium for separation of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans (serotypes A and D) and Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii (serotypes B and C).
TL;DR: A simple new agar medium containing L-canavanine, glycine, and bromthymol blue was found to give a clearer and more accurate distinction between serotype A or D and serotype B or C (C. neoformans var. gattii) than creatinine-dextrose-bromthyl blue or glycine-cycloheximide-phenol red media.
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Epidemiologic differences between the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans
TL;DR: Findings indicated that C. neoformans var.
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Complementation of a capsule-deficient mutation of Cryptococcus neoformans restores its virulence.
Y C Chang,Kyung J. Kwon-Chung +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the CAP59 gene is required for capsule formation and for capsule-related virulence, and that the originally avirulent C. neoformans strain became virulent for mice.
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Genetic association of mating types and virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans.
TL;DR: Testing for virulence in mice suggested the genetic association of virulence with mating type in this human fungal pathogen alpha type was clearly more virulent than a type.