Abstract INTRODUCTION: The clinical manifestations of cryptococcosis are usually associated with the infecting agents Cryptococcus neoformans (CN) and C. gattii (CG) species complexes and the host. In this study, non-HIV-infected patients, at a university hospital in southeastern Brazil, had epidemiolo...
Abstract The aim of this work was to know the frequency and geographical distribution of genotypes and mating types of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii species complexes isolated from human infections in Argentina during the period from April 2009 to April 2011. A multicenter study was con...
ABSTRACT Background: This study aims to explore the epidemiology, clinical profile and strain characteristics of cryptococcosis from 2013 to 2017 in a major teaching hospital in China. Methods: Trends in antifungal drug susceptibility of 217 consecutive non-repetitive cryptococcal isolates collected fr...
Abstract INTRODUCTION Cryptococcosis is the second most frequent cause of opportunistic infections in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients in Colombia. We aimed to determine the prevalence of cryptococcosis in the Colombian department of Atlántico. METHODS An active search for cryptococcosis ...
Os autores fazem consideraçoes clÃnico-epidemiológicas sobre 19 pacientes com criptococose observados de 1989 a 1992. Enfatizam o aumento da incidência da micose, a predominância de formas encefalÃticas, a importância da pesquisa direta do fungo em liquor, as dificuldades terapêuticas e a alta le...
The study of the clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neofarmans from 83 brazilian patients with disseminated cryptococcosis showed that 75 were C. neoformans var. neoformans and eight were var. gattii. Twenty-seven isolates were serotyped; all 19 var. neoforms were serotype A and all eight var. gattii were...
Apresenta-se uma revisäo da literatura fluminense sobre criptococose e säo relatados 10 novos casos observados no perÃodo de outubro de 1984 a janeiro de 1985. Säo comentados o crescente aumento da incidência da micose no Rio de Janeiro, alguns aspectos epidemiológicos e a variedade de apresentaçÃ...