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Environmental Status of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Colombia [PDF]

Journal of Fungi, 2021
The genus Cryptococcus comprises more than 80 species, including C. neoformans and C. gattii, which are pathogenic to humans, mainly affecting the central nervous system. The two species differ in geographic distribution and environmental niche.
Briggith-Nathalia Serna-Espinosa, Diomedes Guzmán-Sanabria, Maribel Forero-Castro, Patricia Escandón, Zilpa Adriana Sánchez-Quitian   +4 more
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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 tropical and subtropical regions.
Fegahli C, Fegahli E.
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Cryptococcus gattii Infections [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2014
SUMMARYUnderstanding of the taxonomy and phylogeny ofCryptococcus gattiihas been advanced by modern molecular techniques.C. gattiiprobably diverged fromCryptococcus neoformansbetween 16 million and 160 million years ago, depending on the dating methods applied, and maintains diversity by recombining in nature.
Sharon C-A, Chen, Wieland, Meyer, Tania C, Sorrell   +2 more
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Management of Cryptococcus gattii meningoencephalitis [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015
Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease caused by Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. By inhalation and subsequent pulmonary infection, it may disseminate to the CNS and cause meningitis or meningoencephalitis. Most cases occur in immunosuppressed hosts, including patients with HIV/AIDS, patients receiving immunosuppressing drugs, and solid ...
Carlos, Franco-Paredes, Tanea, Womack, Teri, Bohlmeyer, Brenda, Sellers, Allison, Hays, Kalpesh, Patel, Jairo, Lizarazo, Shawn R, Lockhart, Wajid, Siddiqui, Kieren A, Marr   +9 more
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Cryptococcus gattii: A Poseur to Behold! [PDF]

Cureus, 2022
Cryptococcosis is an invasive systemic mycosis caused by Cryptococcus, a genus of yeast. Causative organisms for human cryptococcosis include Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Disease due to C.neoformans is conventionally seen in patients with underlying immunosuppression, whereas C.gattii-related infection is usually seen in ...
Ahmed S, Saini J, Netravathi M, Manohar P, Chandrashekar N.   +4 more
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Cryptococcus gattii pneumonia [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2012
A 27-year-old previously healthy woman presented to the emergency department in Calgary, Alberta, with shortness of breath, muscle aches and a nonproductive cough that had lasted for 48 hours. During the previous two weeks, the patient had experienced a loss of appetite, fatigue, fever and chills.
Kerri A, Johannson, Shaunna M, Huston, Christopher H, Mody, Warren, Davidson   +3 more
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Phenotypic Switching of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii [PDF]

Mycopathologia, 2008
Microorganisms that live in fluctuating environments must constantly adapt their behavior to survive. The host constitutes an important microenvironment in opportunistic and primary fungal pathogens like Cryptococcus neoformans (C. neoformans) and Cryptococcus gattii (C. gattii).
Neena, Jain, Bettina C, Fries
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Promiscuous mitochondria inCryptococcus gattii [PDF]

FEMS Yeast Research, 2009
Cryptococcus gattii is a primary pathogenic basidiomycetous yeast comprising four genotypic groups. Here we present data on two mitochondrial loci (MtLrRNA and ATP6). Two of the genotypic groups, namely amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)5/VGIII and AFLP6/VGII, formed monophyletic lineages.
Bovers, M., Hagen, F., Kuramae, E.E., Boekhout, T.   +3 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis [PDF]

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2014
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the two etiologic agents of cryptococcosis. They belong to the phylum Basidiomycota and can be readily distinguished from other pathogenic yeasts such as Candida by the presence of a polysaccharide capsule, formation of melanin, and urease activity, which all function as virulence determinants ...
Kwon-Chung, Kyung J., Fraser, James A., Doering, Tamara L., Wang, Zhuo A., Janbon, Guilhem, Idnurm, Alexander, Bahn, Yong-Sun   +6 more
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Pulmonary Iron Limitation Induced by Exogenous Type I IFN Protects Mice from Cryptococcus gattii Independently of T Cells

mBio, 2019
Cryptococcus neoformans causes deadly mycosis primarily in AIDS patients, whereas Cryptococcus gattii infects mostly non-HIV patients, even in regions with high burdens of HIV/AIDS and an established environmental presence of C. gattii.
Michael J. Davis, Shannon Moyer, Elizabeth S. Hoke, Edward Sionov, Katrin D. Mayer-Barber, Dan L. Barber, Hongyi Cai, Lisa Jenkins, Peter J. Walter, Yun C. Chang, Kyung J. Kwon-Chung   +10 more
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