VGICryptococcus gattii is an underrecognized cause of meningitis, especially in nonendemic regions. This report details C gattii disease progression from admission to autopsy in an otherwise healthy 40-year-old male in Texas. It brings awareness to an often unsuspected organism that can c...
Ongoing Cryptococcus gattii outbreaks in the Western United States and Canada illustrate the impact of environmental reservoirs and both clonal and recombining propagation in driving emergence and expansion of microbial pathogens. C. gattii comprises four distinct molecular types: VGI, VGII, VGIII, and...
gattii VGI was endemic. MLST identified VGII isolates as predominantly sequence type 7, while WGS further confirmed a limited genomic diversity and revealed a basal relationship with isolates from Western Australia. We hypothesize that this represents a founder effect following the introduction of a ...
gattiiSC:23VNI and VNII (C. neoformans), VNIII (C. neoformans×Cryptococcus deneoformanshybrid), VNIV (C. deneoformans), VGI (C. gattiisensu stricto), VGII (Cryptococcus deuterogattii), VGIII (Cryptococcus bacillisporus), VGIV (Cryptococcus tetragattii), and a VGIII/VGIV hybrid (...
Cryptococcus gattiicauses invasive fungal infections that have been increasing in incidence and global distribution in recent years. The major molecular genotypes ofC. gattiithat were previously classified as VGI to VGIV have recently been described as four new species:C. gattii(VGI),C. deutero...
(redirected fromCryptococcus gattii) Medical Encyclopedia Wikipedia cryp·to·coc·cus (krĭp′tə-kŏk′əs) n. Any of various yeastlike fungi of the genusCryptococcus,commonly occurring in the soil and including certain pathogenic species, such as the causative agent of cryptococcosis. ...
gattii13–15. It has been described that virulent C. gattii VGII outbreak lineages derived from mating events in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest and then dispersed to temper- ate regions16–18. VGI isolates can also cause disease in healthy individuals13, while the VGIII molecular type has ...
we initially tested whether this correlation is a general phenomenon of pathogenic cryptococci or whether this trait is specific toC. gattii. We tested 24C. gattiiand 14C. neoformansclinical and environmental isolates from a range of molecular types (VGI, VGII, VGIII, VGIV and VNI, VNII, VN...
Ceratonia siliqua (carob) trees as natural habitat and source of infection by Cryptococcus gattii in the Mediterranean environment. Med Mycol. 2012;50:67–73. First environmental isolation of C. gattii VGI in Spain.Colom MF, Hagen F, Gonzalez A, et al. Ceratonia siliqua (carob) trees as ...
Gonzalez, Gloria M.,Casillas-Vega,etc.Molecular typing of clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii species complex from Northeast Mexico[J].2016,61(1).Gonzalez GM, Casillas-Vega N, Garza-Gonzalez E, Hernandez-Bello R, Rivera G, Rodriguez JA, et al. Molecular typing of ...