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Avaliação da produção de melanina por espécies de Cryptococcus em quatro diferentes meios de cultura Evaluation of melanin production by Cryptococcus species in four different culture media

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007
A capacidade de Cryptococcus spp produzir melanina em meios contendo compostos fenólicos é amplamente utilizada na identificação destas espécies no laboratório.
Reginaldo dos Santos Pedroso, Karen Regina Carim da Costa, Joseane Cristina Ferreira, Regina Celia Candido   +3 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans [PDF]

Trends in Microbiology, 2020
François L, Mayer, James W, Kronstad
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First isolation of Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGII and Cryptococcus neoformans molecular type VNI from environmental sources in the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2009
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are important agents of meningoencephalitis in humans in the city of Belém. This clinical data suggests that the region may be a highly endemic area for the pathogenic Cryptococcus species within the state ...
Solange do PSE Costa, Márcia dos S Lazéra, Wallace RA Santos, Bernardina P Morales, Cláudia CF Bezerra, Marília M Nishikawa, Gláucia G Barbosa, Luciana Trilles, José LM do Nascimento, Bodo Wanke   +9 more
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Ultrastructure of Cryptococcus neoformans

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 1982
The ultrastructure of C. neoformans was studied in two cases of cutaneous cryptococcosis. Extracellular and intracellular fungi were observed. Their capsules and clear zones were thick and distinct, but their cytoplasmic organelles were not obvious. In macrophages, a few stages of fungal degeneration could be observed.
H, Hino, K, Takizawa, G, Asboe-Hansen
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Molecular characterization of environmental Cryptococcus neoformans isolated in Vitoria, ES, Brazil Caracterização molecular de cepas ambientais de Cryptococcus neoformans isoladas em Vitória, ES, Brasil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2008
Cryptococcus neoformans is the major cause of fungal meningitis, a potentially lethal mycosis. Bird excreta can be considered a significant environmental reservoir of this species in urban areas, thirty-three samples of pigeon excreta were collected ...
Mariceli Araujo Ribeiro, Popchai Ngamskulrungroj   +1 more
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Immunomodulatory Role of Capsular Polysaccharides Constituents of Cryptococcus neoformans

Frontiers in Medicine, 2019
Cryptococcosis is a systemic fungal infection caused by Cryptococcus neoformans. In immunocompetent patients, cryptococcal infection is often confined to the lungs. In immunocompromised individuals, C.
Debora Decote-Ricardo, Isabel Ferreira LaRocque-de-Freitas, Juliana Dutra B. Rocha, Danielle O. Nascimento, Danielle O. Nascimento, Marise P. Nunes, Alexandre Morrot, Alexandre Morrot, Leonardo Freire-de-Lima, Jose Osvaldo Previato, Lucia Mendonça-Previato, Celio Geraldo Freire-de-Lima   +11 more
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study the effect of alcoholic and watery extracts of garlic and onion plants on growth of candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans in vitro&vivo

The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2008
This research included study the effect of garlic and onion plants extracts(alcoholic and watery) in vitro in three different concentrations 15%,25%,35% and in vivo in experimental white mice .Research was performed by three experiments, first one was ...
Abd-Alshaheed D. A.
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Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome following Cryptococcal neoformans infection in an immunocompetent host: A case report and review of the literature

IDCases, 2020
We present a case of Cryptococcus neoformans in an immunocompetent middle-aged woman with a disseminated manifestation of pulmonary cryptoccoma and cryptococcal meningitis resulting in bilateral blindness.
Raguharan Kathiresu, Syeda Nabila Zinat, Malindu Fernando   +2 more
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Pulmonary Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Responses to Cryptococcus neoformans

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020
The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans can cause life-threatening infections in immune compromised individuals. This pathogen is typically acquired via inhalation, and enters the respiratory tract.
Benjamin N. Nelson, Ashlee N. Hawkins, Karen L. Wozniak   +2 more
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In vitro susceptibility to antifungal agents of environmental Cryptococcus spp. isolated in the city of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
Infections by Cryptococcus strains other than C. neoformans have been detected in immunocompromised patients. Of these strains, three are considered human pathogens: C. albidus, C. laurenttii, and C. uniguttulatus.
Reginaldo dos Santos Pedroso, Joseane Cristina Ferreira, Regina Celia Candido   +2 more
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