Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated, environmental fungus that can cause life-
threatening meningitis. Pathogenicity of C. neoformans for macrophages and vertebrate …

Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans is an important opportunistic fungal pathogen of
patients whose immune system has been compromised due to viral infection, antineoplastic …

It has recently been proposed that the origin and maintenance of virulence in certain
environmental fungi is influenced by their interactions with non-vertebrate hosts such as …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a major cause of fungal meningoencephalitis in
immunocompromised patients. Despite recent advances in the genetics and molecular …

Most of the species of fungi that cause disease in mammals, including Cryptococcus
neoformans var. grubii (serotype A), are exogenous and non-contagious. Cryptococcus …

Cryptococcus neoformans is an unconventional dimorphic fungus that can grow either as a
yeast or in a filamentous form. To facilitate investigation of genetic factors important for its …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen that exists as three distinct varieties
or sibling species: the predominantly opportunistic pathogens C. neoformans var …

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes life-threatening
meningitis primarily in immunocompromised individuals. In order to survive and proliferate …

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that has evolved over the past 40 million
years into three distinct varieties or sibling species (gattii, grubii, and neoformans). Each …

A multi-host approach was followed to screen a library of 1201 signature-tagged deletion
strains of Cryptococcus neoformans mutants to identify previously unknown virulence …