A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada)

SE Kidd, F Hagen, RL Tscharke… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
… the outbreak isolates and globally isolated C. gattii strains, we compared selected outbreak
… a PCR-fingerprinting database of ≈1,000 cryptococcal strains (SEK and WM, unpublished …

[HTML][HTML] Spread of Cryptococcus gattii into Pacific Northwest region of the United States

…, Cryptococcus gattii Working Group of the … - Emerging infectious …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the most common cause of human disease worldwide since the HIV pandemic began, C. …
cryptococcosis is limited by our currently used diagnostic methods. Diagnosis of cryptococcosis

Cryptococcus gattii: a resurgent fungal pathogen

V Chaturvedi, S Chaturvedi - Trends in microbiology, 2011 - cell.com
… The far better known etiologic agent of cryptococcosis is Cryptococcus neoformans, the …
information and ongoing outbreaks have rekindled interest in C. gattii cryptococcosis. This …

The Disease Ecology, Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Management of Emerging Cryptococcus gattii Complex Infections

JH Diaz - Wilderness & environmental medicine, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… found worldwide, can cause cryptococcosis, an opportunistic … of the C neoformans complex,
Cryptococcus gattii, has caused … 2004, C gattii caused outbreaks of human cryptococcosis in …

Cryptococcus gattii isolates from the British Columbia cryptococcosis outbreak induce less protective inflammation in a murine model of infection than Cryptococcus …

PY Cheng, A Sham, JW Kronstad - Infection and immunity, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans causes approximately one million cases
of cryptococcosis per year in people with AIDS. In contrast, the related species C. …

Current trends in the prevalence of Cryptococcus gattii in the United States and Canada

A Espinel-Ingroff, SE Kidd - Infection and Drug Resistance, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Cryptococcus gattii infections in both Canada and the United States (US) is provided in this
literature review beyond the British Columbia (BC) outbreakcryptococcosis caused by both C

Cryptococcus gattii in the United States: Clinical Aspects of Infection With an Emerging Pathogen

…, M Goldoft, R Wohrle, S Lee, C Smelser… - Clinical infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Cryptococcus gattii (Cg) has caused increasing infections in … We describe this outbreak
and compare clinical aspects of … outbreak caused by the emerging pathogen Cryptococcus

Cryptococcus gattii infections

SCA Chen, W Meyer, TC Sorrell - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The occurrence of outbreaks of cryptococcosis in new geographic locations over the last
2 … gattii cryptococcosis was established in 2004 in the Pacific Northwest. As of 2012, >96 …

Cryptococcus gattii: An Emerging Cause of Fungal Disease in North America

A Dixit, SF Carroll, ST Qureshi - … perspectives on infectious …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… yeast Cryptococcus neoformans increased significantly since the onset of the HIV epidemic
and … Light microscopy is an efficient method for the rapid diagnosis of cryptococcosis. For this …

The Outbreak of Cryptococcus gattii in Western North America: Epidemiology and Clinical Issues

EJ Byrnes, KA Marr - Current infectious disease reports, 2011 - Springer
… , Cryptococcus gattii, as a cause of disease in humans and animals in a temperate climate.
This outbreak, … Additionally, a secondary outbreak, originating in and still restricted to Oregon, …