A recent emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in the Pacific Northwest involves strains that fall
into three primarily clonal molecular subtypes: VGIIa, VGIIb and VGIIc. Multilocus sequence …

Background Cryptococcus gattii infections are being reported in the United States (US) with
increasing frequency. Initially, US reports were primarily associated with an ongoing C. gattii …

Cryptococcus gattii has recently emerged as a pathogen of humans and animals in the
temperate climate of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC). The majority (∼ 95%) of the …

The emergence of distinct populations of Cryptococcus gattii in the temperate North
American Pacific Northwest (PNW) was surprising, as this species was previously thought to …

Cryptococcus gattii causes life-threatening disease in otherwise healthy hosts and to a
lesser extent in immunocompromised hosts. The highest incidence for this disease is on …

Cryptococcus gattii, the sister species of Cryptococcus neoformans, is an emerging
pathogen which gained importance in connection with the ongoing cryptococcosis outbreak …

Abstract Background Copy number variants (CNVs) are a class of structural variants (SVs)
and are defined as fragments of DNA that are present at variable copy number in …

The emerging pathogen Cryptococcus gattii causes life-threatening disease in
immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts. Of the four major molecular types (VGI …

Clonal VGII subtypes (outbreak strains) of Cryptococcus gattii have caused an outbreak in
the US Pacific Northwest since 2004. Outbreak-associated infections occur equally in male …

Whole-genome sequencing has advanced our understanding of the population structure of
the pathogenic species complex Cryptococcus gattii, which has allowed for the …