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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 +4 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 +9 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 +3 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 This study analyzed the in vitro drug sensitivity of Cryptococcus spp. from Guangxi, Southern China. One hundred three strains of Cryptococcus were recovered from 86 patients; 14 were HIV positive and 72 were HIV negative.
Najwa Al-Odaini +19 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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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009 Foram avaliados 37 isolados de 10 pacientes HIV negativos e 26 positivos, em Mato Grosso. Exame direto, cultura e quimiotipagem de espécies foram realizados. Cetoconazol, itraconazol, voriconazol, fluconazol e anfotericina B foram avaliados.
Olivia Cometti Favalessa +6 more
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Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent host in Greece
Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2020 We report a case of a 31-year-old otherwise healthy female with pulmonary cryptococcoma along with cryptococcal meningitis due to Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGI, in Greece.
Marina Andreou +9 more
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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. +3 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. +46 more
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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 +10 more
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