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Heteroresistance of Cryptococcus gattii to Fluconazole [PDF]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2010
ABSTRACT We analyzed 71 clinical and environmental Cryptococcus gattii strains that had been isolated before or after the advent of azole antifungals to determine their level of heteroresistance to fluconazole (LHF). All strains of C.
A, Varma, K J, Kwon-Chung
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The Primary Target Organ of Cryptococcus gattii Is Different from That of Cryptococcus neoformans in a Murine Model

mBio, 2012
Cryptococcosis is caused by the opportunistic pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans or by the primary pathogen Cryptococcus gattii. Epidemiological studies suggest that patients infected with C.
Popchai Ngamskulrungroj, Yun Chang, Edward Sionov, Kyung J. Kwon-Chung   +3 more
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A Rare Case of Meningitis in Advanced HIV Disease, Sagittal Thrombosis, and Immune Reconstitution Syndrome, Resolved With Isavuconazonium

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2020
Cryptococcus gattii is a species that has received more recognition in the recent past as distinct from Cryptococcus neoformans. C gattii is known to cause meningeal disease in both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed hosts.
Jerome Okudo MD, Valerie F. Civelli MD, Vishal K. Narang MD, Royce H. Johnson MD, Nadir Khan MD, Brittany Andruszko PharmD, Arash Heidari MD   +6 more
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Unisexual Reproduction of Cryptococcus gattii

PLoS ONE, 2014
Cryptococcus gattii is a basidiomycetous human fungal pathogen that typically causes infection in tropical and subtropical regions and is responsible for an ongoing outbreak in immunocompetent individuals on Vancouver Island and in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
Sujal S Phadke, Marianna Feretzaki, Shelly Applen Clancey, Olaf Mueller, Joseph Heitman   +4 more
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Cryptococcus gattii: a resurgent fungal pathogen [PDF]

Trends in Microbiology, 2011
Cryptococcus gattii and Cryptococcus neoformans are causal agents of cryptococcosis, which manifests as pneumonia and meningitis. C. gattii has recently received widespread attention owing to outbreaks in British Columbia, Canada and the US Pacific Northwest.
Vishnu, Chaturvedi, Sudha, Chaturvedi
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Isolation of Cryptococcus gattii VGIII from feline nasal injury

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018
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 Valparaíso region in Chile.
Peggy Vieille, Rodrigo Cruz, Paula León, Nicolás Cáceres, Gustavo Giusiano   +4 more
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Cryptococcus gattii: The Tip of the Iceberg [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2011
TO THE EDITOR—Our historical understanding of Cryptococcus gattii depicts a fungus that is geographically restricted to tropical and subtropical regions, where it has a propensity to cause central nervous system (CNS) disease in persons with normal immune systems. This fungus, which only recently has been appreciated as a species distinct from its more
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Ecoepidemiology of Cryptococcus gattii in Developing Countries [PDF]

Journal of Fungi, 2017
Cryptococcosis is a systemic infection caused by species of the encapsulated yeast Cryptococcus. The disease may occur in immunocompromised and immunocompetent hosts and is acquired by the inhalation of infectious propagules present in the environment.
Patricia Herkert, Ferry Hagen, Rosangela Pinheiro, Marisol Muro, Jacques Meis, Flávio Queiroz-Telles   +5 more
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Genome Variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an Emerging Pathogen of Immunocompetent Hosts

mBio, 2011
Cryptococcus gattii recently emerged as the causative agent of cryptococcosis in healthy individuals in western North America, despite previous characterization of the fungus as a pathogen in tropical or subtropical regions.
C. A. D’Souza, J. W. Kronstad, G. Taylor, R. Warren, M. Yuen, G. Hu, W. H. Jung, A. Sham, S. E. Kidd, K. Tangen, N. Lee, T. Zeilmaker, J. Sawkins, G. McVicker, S. Shah, S. Gnerre, A. Griggs, Q. Zeng, K. Bartlett, W. Li, X. Wang, J. Heitman, J. E. Stajich, J. A. Fraser, W. Meyer, D. Carter, J. Schein, M. Krzywinski, K. J. Kwon-Chung, A. Varma, J. Wang, R. Brunham, M. Fyfe, B. F. F. Ouellette, A. Siddiqui, M. Marra, S. Jones, R. Holt, B. W. Birren, J. E. Galagan, C. A. Cuomo   +40 more
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Titan Cells and Yeast Forms of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii Are Recognized by GXMR-CAR

Microorganisms, 2021
Cryptococcosis, a systemic mycosis that affects both the immunocompromised and immunocompetent, is caused by the inhalation of dehydrated yeasts or fungal spores of Cryptococcus gattii or Cryptococcus neoformans. The Cryptococcus spp.
Matheus Henrique dos Santos, Michele Procópio Machado, Pappanaicken R. Kumaresan, Thiago Aparecido da Silva   +3 more
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