Yeasts of the Cryptococcus genus are distributed in nature associated to animal and vegetal
organic residues. Occasionally, species other than C. neoformans may be responsible for …

Evolutionary selection pressures that resulted in microbes found within environmental
reservoirs that can cause diseases in animals are unknown. One hypothesis is that …

We evaluated the antifungal activities of amphotericin B, fluconazole, itraconazole and
voriconazole in 70 Cryptococcus neoformans strains obtained from cerebrospinal fluid from …

Fungal pathogenesis requires a number of extracellularly released virulence factors. Recent
studies demonstrating that most fungal extracellular molecules lack secretory tags suggest …

Microbes compete for the environmental niche which is their host. To investigate the effects
of a pathogenic bacterium on invasion and colonization by a pathogenic yeast …

Virulence has been proposed to be an emergent property, which by definition implies that it
is not reducible to its components, but this application of a philosophical concept to the host …

Cryptococcosis is one of the most serious fungal diseases of animals worldwide, affecting a
wide variety of mammals (including humans) and, occasionally, birds, reptiles, and …

Abstract Purpose of Review Free-living amoebae (FLAs) are ubiquitous and can co-habit
similar niches and interact with fungi. Herein, we discuss theories on FLAs and the origin …

The Cryptococcus gattii species complex harbors the main etiological agents of
cryptococcosis in immunocompetent patients. C. gattii molecular type VGII predominates in …

Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are responsible for a large number of annual deaths. Most
cases are closely related to patients in a state of immunosuppression, as is the case of …