Isolation of Cryptococcus gattii VGIII from feline nasal injury

Abstract Hereby we communicate the first autochthon isolation of Cryptococcus gattii VGIII in Chile, which was obtained from a nasal injury in a domestic cat in the Valparaiso region in Chile. The strain was identified using morphophysiological tests, MALDI-TOF, and URA5 gene PCR-RFLP analysis.