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Antifungal Potential of Synthetic Peptides against Cryptococcus neoformans: Mechanism of Action Studies Reveal Synthetic Peptides Induce Membrane–Pore Formation, DNA Degradation, and Apoptosis

Pharmaceutics, 2022
Cryptococcus neoformans is a human-pathogenic yeast responsible for pneumonia and meningitis, mainly in patients immunocompromised. Infections caused by C. neoformans are a global health concern.
Tawanny K. B. Aguiar, Nilton A. S. Neto, Cleverson D. T. Freitas, Ayrles F. B. Silva, Leandro P. Bezerra, Ellen A. Malveira, Levi A. C. Branco, Felipe P. Mesquita, Gustavo H. Goldman, Luciana M. R. Alencar, Jose T. A. Oliveira, Ralph Santos-Oliveira, Pedro F. N. Souza   +12 more
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TYPING OF CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS ISOLATES RECOVERED FROM DROPPINGS OF PIGEONS, PARROTS AND CANARIES [PDF]

Veterinary Medical Journal - Giza, 2007
Biotyping of 9 isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans recovered from bird droppings was carried out on Canavanine-glycine-bromothymol blue (CGB) and Glycine-cycloheximide-phenol red (GCP) media. Only one isolate was identified as C.
M. KOTB, M. . EL-HARIRI, HEIDY ABO EL-YAZEED, Dept. of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo Univ. EZZ-ELDIN, W. TAWAKKOL, M. REFAI   +5 more
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Pigment production on L-tryptophan medium by Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
In recent years strains previously grouped within Cryptococcus neoformans have been divided into two species C. neoformans and C. gattii, with Cryptococcus neoformans comprising serotypes A, D, and AD and C.
Stuart Chaskes, Michael Cammer, Edward Nieves, Arturo Casadevall   +3 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans Infection in the Central Nervous System: The Battle between Host and Pathogen

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) is a pathogenic fungus with a global distribution. Humans become infected by inhaling the fungus from the environment, and the fungus initially colonizes the lungs.
Yanli Chen, Zoe W. Shi, Ashley B. Strickland, Meiqing Shi   +3 more
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Asociacion de leveduras del genero Cryptococcus con especies de Eucalyptus en Santafe de Bogota Isolation of Cryptococcus sp. associated with Eucalyptus trees in Santafé de Bogota

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1994
El aislamiento de Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii, serotipo B, a partir del medio ambiente se estableció inicialmente en Australia en 1989, en asocio con el Eucalyptus camaldulensis y posteriormente con E. tereticornis. Con estos hallazgos se postuló
A. Duarte, N. Ordoñez, E. Castañeda
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Cryptococcus neoformans is resistant to surfactant protein A mediated host defense mechanisms. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2007
Initiation of a protective immune response to infection by the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is mediated in part by host factors that promote interactions between immune cells and C. neoformans yeast.
Steven S Giles, Aimee K Zaas, Mike F Reidy, John R Perfect, Jo Rae Wright   +4 more
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In vitro susceptibility characteristics of Cryptococcus neoformans varieties from AIDS patients in Goiânia, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2003
Sixty clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from AIDS from Goiânia, state of Goiás, Brazil, were characterized according to varieties, serotypes and tested for antifungal susceptibility.
Orionalda de FL Fernandes, Xisto S Passos, Lúcia KH Souza, André TB Miranda, Carlos Henrique PV Cerqueira, Maria do Rosário R Silva   +5 more
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Subculturing and Gram staining of blood cultures flagged negative by the BACTEC™ FX system: Optimizing the workflow for detection of Cryptococcus neoformans in clinical specimens

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
ObjectiveTo investigate whether an incubation time of 5 days (Aerobic/F, Anaerobic/F) and 14 days (Myco/F) blood culture bottles is sufficient to prevent false-negative results.MethodsWe evaluated 1,244 blood bottles (344 patients) defined as negative by
Lingli Liu, Lingli Liu, Lijun Du, Lijun Du, Lijun Du, Shuquan He, Shuquan He, Shuquan He, Tianshu Sun, Fanrong Kong, Yali Liu, Yali Liu, Yali Liu, Yingchun Xu, Yingchun Xu   +14 more
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Low Diversity Cryptococcus neoformans Variety grubii Multilocus Sequence Types from Thailand Are Consistent with an Ancestral African Origin [PDF]

, 2011
The global burden of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis is estimated at nearly one million cases per year, causing up to a third of all AIDS-related deaths.
Fisher, M.D., Annemarie E. Brouwer, Thomas S Harrison, Simwami, SP, Matthew C Fisher, Boekhout, T, Khayhan Kantarawee, Aanensen, D.M., Brouwer Annemarie E., Hagen, F, Daniel A Henk, Matthew C. Fisher, Harrison, T.S., Henk Daniel A., Donnelly Christl A., Harrison Thomas S., Fisher Matthew C., Khayhan, K., David M. Aanensen, Aanensen David M., Annemarie E Brouwer, Brouwer, A.E., Donnelly, C.A., Aanensen, DM, Christl A Donnelly, Henk, DA, Brouwer, AE, Hagen, F., Henk, D.A., Sitali P. Simwami, Sitali P Simwami, Khayhan, K, Donnelly, CA, Ferry Hagen, Daniel A. Henk, Fisher, MC, Christl A. Donnelly, Teun Boekhout, Hagen Ferry, Kantarawee Khayhan, Simwami Sitali P., Boekhout, T., Boekhout Teun, Harrison, TS, Thomas S. Harrison, Simwami, S.P., David M Aanensen   +46 more
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Serotipificación de aislamientos clínicos y del medio ambiente de Cryptococcus neoformans en Colombia

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 1994
Se determinó l variedad y el serotipo de 192 aislamientos de Cryptococcus neoformans recuperados de 1972 a 1992; 163 de origen clínico y 29 del medio ambiente. En los aislamientos clínicos se determinaron las dos variedades de C.
N. Ordóñez, E. Castañeda
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