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Environmental distribution of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii around the Mediterranean basin. [PDF]

FEMS Yeast Res, 2016
In order to elucidate the distribution of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii in the Mediterranean basin, an extensive environmental survey was carried out during 2012-2015.
Cogliati M, D'Amicis R, Zani A, Montagna MT, Caggiano G, De Giglio O, Balbino S, De Donno A, Serio F, Susever S, Ergin C, Velegraki A, Ellabib MS, Nardoni S, Macci C, Oliveri S, Trovato L, Dipineto L, Rickerts V, McCormick-Smith I, Akcaglar S, Tore O, Mlinaric-Missoni E, Bertout S, Mallié M, Martins Mda L, Vencà AC, Vieira ML, Sampaio AC, Pereira C, Criseo G, Romeo O, Ranque S, Al-Yasiri MH, Kaya M, Cerikcioglu N, Marchese A, Vezzulli L, Ilkit M, Desnos-Ollivier M, Pasquale V, Korem M, Polacheck I, Scopa A, Meyer W, Ferreira-Paim K, Hagen F, Theelen B, Boekhout T, Lockhart SR, Tintelnot K, Tortorano AM, Dromer F, Varma A, Kwon-Chung KJ, Inácio J, Alonso B, Colom MF.   +57 more
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Screening and Antifungal Activity of a β-Carboline Derivative against Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii. [PDF]

Int J Microbiol, 2019
Background. Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease of bad prognosis due to its pathogenicity and the toxicity of the drugs used for its treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the medicinal potential of carbazole and β-carboline alkaloids and ...
Cruz KS, Lima ES, da Silva MJA, de Souza ES, Montoia A, Pohlit AM, de Souza JVB.   +6 more
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In vitro susceptibility of Cryptococcus gattii clinical isolates

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2008
The data available in the literature concerning Cryptococcus gattii in vitro antifungal susceptibility are contradictory. We have analyzed the activity of eight antifungal agents against 23 C.
Alicia Gómez-López, OSCAR Zaragoza, Marcia S C Melhem   +2 more
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Cryptococcus gattii VGII Clinical Isolates and Its Impact on Virulence

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
The Cryptococcus gattii species complex harbors the main etiological agents of cryptococcosis in immunocompetent patients. C. gattii molecular type VGII predominates in the north and northeastern regions of Brazil, leading to high morbidity and mortality
Glauber R De S Araujo, Susana Frases, Charley Christian Staats   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Vaccine-Mediated Immune Responses to Experimental Pulmonary Cryptococcus gattii Infection in Mice

PLoS ONE, 2014
Cryptococcus gattii is a fungal pathogen that can cause life-threatening respiratory and disseminated infections in immune-competent and immune-suppressed individuals.
Ashok K Chaturvedi, Karen L Wozniak, Camaron R Hole   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent patient. [PDF]

Radiol Case Rep
Cryptococcosis is a fungal infection caused by Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans that primarily affects the brain and lungs. While C. gatti typically infects immunodeficient hosts, it can also infect immunocompetent hosts, particularly in ...
Fegahli C, Fegahli E.
europepmc   +2 more sources

What’s New in Cryptococcus gattii: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond

, 2022
Cryptococcus species are a major cause of life-threatening infections in immunocompromised and immunocompetent hosts. While most disease is caused by Cryptococcus neoformans, Cryptococcus gattii, a genotypically and phenotypically distinct species, is ...
Catriona Halliday, Dao, Aiken, Halliday, Catriona, Chen, Sharon C-A, Garnham, Katherine, Sorrell, Tania C, Sorrell, Tania C., Caitlin Keighley, Beardsley, Justin, Keighley, Caitlin, Aiken Dao, Chen, Sharon C.-A., Justin Beardsley, Sharon C.-A. Chen, Tania C. Sorrell, Katherine Garnham   +15 more
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The Cryptococcus gattii species complex: Unique pathogenic yeasts with understudied virulence mechanisms [PDF]

, 2022
Members of Cryptococcus gattii/neoformans species complex are the etiological agents of the potentially fatal human fungal infection cryptococcosis. C. gattii and its sister species cause disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts, while
Onyishi, Chinaemerem U, Onyishi, Chinaemerem U., May, Robin C., Saidykhan, Lamin, May, Robin C; id_orcid   +4 more
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Imaging findings in patients with C. gattii infection.

, 2022
Imaging findings in patients with C. gattii infection.
Simon Smith (675188), Josh Hanson (342079), Luke Conway (12322801), Lee Fairhead (12322807), Laura K. Smith (12322804), Enzo Binotto (3815149), Yi Shan Der (12322810), Lara Payne (12322813), Beatrice Z. Sim (12322798)   +8 more
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Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent patient from Southern Italy

, 2012
Cryptococcus gattii has becoming more prevalent in temperate climate zones, during the past decades. We describe a C. gattii serotype B infection in an immunocompetent Italian patient with sclerosing cholangitis.
MONTAGNA, Maria Teresa, BOEKHOUT T, IATTA, ROBERTA, FICO C, HAGEN F, LOPATRIELLO N   +5 more
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