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A Peptide from Budding Yeast GAPDH Serves as a Promising Antifungal against Cryptococcus neoformans

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Infection of Cryptococcus neoformans is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, particularly among immunocompromised patients. However, currently available drugs for the treatment of C. neoformans infection are minimal. Here, we report SP1,
Yang Zhang, Liyan Zhou, Yan Liu, Xi Zhao, Xianqiang Lian, Jie Zhang, De Zhao, Yujuan Wang, Jin Zhong, Junfeng Wang, Hongli Wang, Linqi Wang, Yu V. Fu   +12 more
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Cryptococcus gattii, No Longer an Accidental Pathogen? [PDF]

Current Fungal Infection Reports, 2012
Cryptococcus gattii is an environmentally occurring pathogen that is responsible for causing cryptococcosis marked by pneumonia and meningoencephalitis in humans and animals. C. gattii can form long-term associations with trees and soil resulting in the production of infectious propagules (spores and desiccated yeast).
Deborah J, Springer, Sujal, Phadke, Blake, Billmyre, Joseph, Heitman   +3 more
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A case of pulmonary cryptococcoma due to Cryptococcus gattii in the United Kingdom

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018
We report a case of Cryptococcus gattii infection in the UK in a 76-year-old woman on biologic therapy for intra-abdominal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. An incidental nodular lung lesion was found on a chest imaging and histology, culture and molecular mycology ...
Isabel Rodriguez-Goncer, Felix Bongomin, Helen M. Doran, Lily Novak-Frazer, Rikesh Masania, Caroline B. Moore, Malcolm D. Richardson   +6 more
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The Search for the Natural Habitat of Cryptococcus gattii [PDF]

Mycopathologia, 2010
In this issue of Mycopathologia, Loperana-Alvarezet al. [1] report that they have isolated the pathogenicyeast Cryptococcus gattii from trees and succulentplants in Puerto Rico, a tropical island in theCaribbean.Until a decade ago the basidiomycetous yeastCryptococcus gattii was a rare cause of cryptococcosisin humans and animals that occurred mainly ...
Hagen, F., Boekhout, T.
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Prevalence of Cryptococcus gattii in Ugandan HIV-infected patients presenting with cryptococcal meningitis.

PLoS ONE, 2022
IntroductionCryptococcal meningitis (CM) is a life threatening disease and leading cause of opportunistic fungal-related mortality in HIV/AIDS. Most CM infections are caused by C.
Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu, David Meya, Beatrice Achan   +7 more
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Cryptococcus: History, Epidemiology and Immune Evasion

Applied Sciences, 2022
Cryptococcosis is a disease caused by the pathogenic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, both environmental fungi that cause severe pneumonia and may even lead to cryptococcal meningoencephalitis. Although C.
Israel Diniz-Lima, Leonardo Marques da Fonseca, Elias Barbosa da Silva-Junior, Joyce Cristina Guimarães-de-Oliveira, Leonardo Freire-de-Lima, Danielle Oliveira Nascimento, Alexandre Morrot, Jose Osvaldo Previato, Lucia Mendonça-Previato, Debora Decote-Ricardo, Celio Geraldo Freire-de-Lima   +10 more
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Search for Cryptococcus neoformans/gattii Complexes and Related Genera (Filobasidium, Holtermanniella, Naganishia, Papiliotrema, Solicoccozyma, Vishniacozyma) spp. Biotope: Two Years Surveillance of Wild Avian Fauna in Southern France

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Fungi belonging to the Cryptococcus genus and related genera (Filobasidium, Holtermanniella, Naganishia, Papiliotrema, Solicoccozyma, Vishniacozyma) are encapsulated yeasts found in either the environment or animal sources.
Sébastien Bertout, Tiphany Gouveia, Donika Krasteva, Julie Pierru, Cyrille Pottier, Virginie Bellet, Emilie Arianiello, Florian Salipante, Frédéric Roger, Pascal Drakulovski   +9 more
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Genetic diversity of the Cryptococcus species complex suggests that Cryptococcus gattii deserves to have varieties. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
The Cryptococcus species complex contains two sibling taxa, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Both species are basidiomycetous yeasts and major pathogens of humans and other mammals.
Popchai Ngamskulrungroj, Felix Gilgado, Josiane Faganello, Anastasia P Litvintseva, Ana Lusia Leal, Kin Ming Tsui, Thomas G Mitchell, Marilene Henning Vainstein, Wieland Meyer   +8 more
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A murine model of Cryptococcus gattii meningoencephalitis [PDF]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2012
Meningoencephalitis caused by Cryptococcus gattii is associated with significant morbidity and the need for aggressive therapy, and often necessitates neurosurgical intervention. We adapted a previously described murine model of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans to that caused by C.
George R, Thompson, Nathan P, Wiederhold, Laura K, Najvar, Rosie, Bocanegra, William R, Kirkpatrick, John R, Graybill, Thomas F, Patterson   +6 more
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Cutaneous cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii in a patient on chronic corticotherapy Criptococose cutânea causada por Cryptococcus gattii em um paciente sob corticoterapia crônica

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2010
Cryptococcus gattii causes a form of endemic mycosis that most commonly affects the lungs and central nervous system of immunocompetent patients living in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Case report.
Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Maysa Baciotti, Maria Paula Zanatto, Jaqueline Otero Silva, Marilena dos Anjos Martins, Roberto Martinez   +5 more
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