Fatal Disseminated Cryptococcus gattii Infection in New Mexico

Fatal Disseminated Cryptococcus gattii Infection in New Mexico

We report a case of fatal disseminated infection with Cryptococcus gattii in a patient from New Mexico. The patient had no history of recent travel to known C. gattii-endemic areas. Multilocus sequence typing revealed that the isolate belonged to the major molecular type VGIII. Virulence studies in...

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Main Authors: Walraven, Carla J., Gerstein, Wendy, Hardison, Sarah E., Wormley, Floyd, Lockhart, Shawn R., Harris, Julie R., Fothergill, Annette, Wickes, Brian, Gober-Wilcox, Julie, Massie, Larry, Ku, T. S. Neil, Firacative, Carolina, Meyer, Wieland, Lee, Samuel A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237461/

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