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Experimental models of cryptococcosis. [PDF]

, 2011
Cryptococcosis is a life-threatening fungal disease that infects around one million people each year. Establishment and progression of disease involves a complex interplay between the fungus and a diverse range of host cell types.
May, Robin C, Sabiiti, Wilber, Robin C. May, E. Rhiannon Pursall, May, Robin; id_orcid, Sabiiti, W, May, RC, Pursall, ER, Wilber Sabiiti, Pursall, E Rhiannon   +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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Isolation and characterisation of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii from environmental sources in Nairobi, Kenya [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: To establish the environmental reservoirs of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Nairobi, Kenya.Design: Prospective study.Setting: Kenya Medical Research Institute, Mycology laboratory, Nairobi, Kenya.Subjects: A total of 400 ...
Boga, H, Bii, C, Kangogo, M, Wanyoike, W
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