Article
Molecular characterization of clinical and environmental isolates from the Cryptococcus neoformans/C. Gattii species complexes of Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Jun 2024
de Holanda Fonseca Douglas Lyra, Silva Denise Maria Wanderlei da, de Albuquerque Maranhão Fernanda Cristina
Abstract excerpt
Cryptococcosis is one of the major life-threatening opportunistic/systemic fungal diseases of worldwide occurrence, which can be asymptomatic or establish pneumonia and meningoencephalitis mainly in immunosuppressed patients, caused by the Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii species complexes. Acquisition is by inhaling fungal propagules from avian droppings, tree hollows and decaying wood, and the association...
Topics
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Brazil
- Cryptococcosis
- Cryptococcus gattii
- Humans
- Animals
- Environmental Microbiology
- Columbidae
- Mycological Typing Techniques
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
