Cryptococcus gattii: an emerging fungal pathogen in the Southeastern United States.
The authors present a case of severe meningoencephalitis with cryptococcomas and hydrocephalus due to Cryptococcus gattii of the molecular type VGI in an otherwise healthy man native to Southwest Georgia without any history of travel. Clinicians need to be aware of this fungal emerging pathogen in the Southern United States.
Microbiology Laboratory, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, GA 31701, USA.
Brenda
B
Sellers
Peggy
P
Hall
Stalina
S
Cine-Gowdie
Allison L
AL
Hays
Kalpesh
K
Patel
Shawn R
SR
Lockhart
Carlos
C
Franco-Paredes
D000368:Aged; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D056285:Cryptococcus gattii / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015144:Southeastern United States