Genetics of Cryptococcus neoformans

CM Hull, J Heitman - Annual review of genetics, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic fungus that primarily afflicts
immunocompromised patients, infecting the central nervous system to cause …

Deciphering the Model Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus Neoformans

A Idnurm, YS Bahn, K Nielsen, X Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2005 - nature.com
Cryptococcus neoformans is a basidiomycete fungal pathogen of humans that has diverged
considerably from other model fungi such as Neurospora crassa, Aspergillus nidulans …

Cryptococcus neoformans: morphogenesis, infection, and evolution

X Lin - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2009 - Elsevier
Cryptococcus neoformans is the major causative agent of fungal meningoencephalitis in
both immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals. During infection, this fungus …

Multiple gene genealogies reveal recent dispersion and hybridization in the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

J Xu, R Vilgalys, TG Mitchell - Molecular Ecology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Cryptococcus neoformans (= Filobasidiella neoformans) is a significant emerging fungal
pathogen of humans. To understand the evolution of this pathogen, 34 strains were obtained …

Cryptococcus neoformans: A sugar-coated killer with designer genes

JR Perfect - FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Cryptococcus neoformans has become a common central nervous system pathogen as the
immunocompromised populations enlarge world-wide. This encapsulated yeast has …

Microevolution of a Standard Strain ofCryptococcus neoformans Resulting in Differences in Virulence and Other Phenotypes

SP Franzot, J Mukherjee, R Cherniak… - Infection and …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cryptococcus neoformans is a major fungal pathogen for patients with debilitated immune
systems. However, no information is available on the stability of virulence or of phenotypes …

The Genome of the Basidiomycetous Yeast and Human Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

BJ Loftus, E Fung, P Roncaglia, D Rowley, P Amedeo… - Science, 2005 - science.org
Cryptococcus neoformans is a basidiomycetous yeast ubiquitous in the environment, a
model for fungal pathogenesis, and an opportunistic human pathogen of global importance …

Virulence, serotype, and molecular characteristics of environmental strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii

KJ Kwon-Chung, BL Wickes, L Stockman… - Infection and …, 1992 - Am Soc Microbiol
Four strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii originating from Eucalyptus
camaldulensis, three from Australia and one from San Francisco, were tested for their …

[HTML][HTML] The origin and maintenance of virulence for the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

JN Steenbergen, A Casadevall - Microbes and infection, 2003 - Elsevier
The origin of virulence in environmental fungi that have no requirement for animal hosts in
their life cycle is enigmatic. Cryptococcus neoformans is a human pathogenic fungus with …

Profiling a killer, the development of Cryptococcus neoformans

L Kozubowski, J Heitman - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The ability of fungi to transition between unicellular and multicellular growth has a profound
impact on our health and the economy. Many important fungal pathogens of humans …