Cryptococcus: History, Epidemiology and Immune Evasion

I Diniz-Lima, LM Fonseca, EB Silva-Junior… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, both environmental fungi that cause
severe pneumonia and may even lead to cryptococcal … It started in 1894 in Germany, when the …

[HTML][HTML] Survival after cryptococcosis in Germany: A retrospective multicenter cohort study of patients diagnosed between 2004 and 2021

…, C Hoffmann, O Cornely, U Koppe, C Stephan… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
… study of cryptococcosis diagnosed in Germany between 2004 and … , and survival after
diagnosis of cryptococcosis in this cohort. We … Cryptococcus neoformans infection in malignancy …

Spatial Quantification of the Population Exposed to Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii Species Complexes in Europe: Estimating the …

AJ Alaniz, JG Carvajal, MA Carvajal, M Cogliati… - Risk …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… (AFLP4/VGI) and Cryptococcus tetragattii (AFLP7/VGIV) (Cogliati, 2013; … cryptococcosis
is primarily associated with the C. neoformans species complex in Europe, the role of the C. …

Molecular epidemiology and antifungal susceptibility profiles of clinical Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex

Z Bandalizadeh, T Shokohi, H Badali… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
Cryptococcal meningitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans genotype AFLP1/VNI in Iran: a
review of the literature. Mycoses 2015; 58:… Clin Microbiol Infect 2013; 19:763–769 [View Article] …

Global warming impact on the expansion of fundamental niche of Cryptococcus gattii VGI in Europe

M Cogliati - Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… On the basis of these predictions, an increase of cases of cryptococcosis due to C. gattii VGI
is … VGI isolates were not recovered from surveys carried out in France, Germany, Croatia, …

An analysis of the population of Cryptococcus neoformans strains isolated from animals in Poland, in the years 2015–2019

M Florek, U Nawrot, A Korzeniowska-Kowal… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
… the relationship between cryptococcosis occurrence in humans … animals only, prevalence of
cryptococcosis appears to be … observed in Sweden, Austria and Germany 50,51 , whereas in …

Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from 7 hospitals in China

L Jin, JR Cao, XY Xue, H Wu, LF Wang, L Guo… - BMC microbiology, 2020 - Springer
gattii strains leads us to this … gattii), one of the most common pathogenic cryptococcal
species, primarily infects immunocompetent hosts, in contrast to Cryptococcus neoformans (C. …

Infections due to Rare Cryptococcus Species. A Literature Review

SE Morales-López, G Garcia-Effron - Journal of fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the most … However, this description
was made in an abstract the ASM (Micro) 2013… Epidemiological characteristics of cryptococcal

Prevalence, Genetic Structure and Antifungal Susceptibility of the Cryptococcus neoformans/C. gattii Species Complex Strains Collected from the Arboreal Niche in …

M Florek, A Korzeniowska-Kowal, A Wzorek… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex (CNGSC) were the etiological
agents of the majority of cases. The worldwide impact of cryptococcosis … ] and Germany [13]…

High genetic variability of clinical and environmental Cryptococcus gattii isolates from Brazil

AM Vilas-Bôas, LE Andrade-Silva… - Medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Cryptococcus neoformans is distributed worldwide; it is considered an opportunistic agent
and causes most of the 220,000 cases of cryptococcosis reported yearly in patients infected …