INTRODUCTION. Cryptococcus gattii is a basidiomycetous yeast, which grows mainly as an asexual budding yeast in the environment and within human and animal hosts. Sexual reproduction can occur between cells of the opposite mating type or of the same mating type ().During sexual development, yeast cells undergo a dimorphic transition to hyphal growth, generating a mycelium and forming Cryptococcus gattii is a fungus that lives in the environment in primarily tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world but also in some temperate regions such as British Columbia and some parts of the United States.C. gattii cryptococcosis is a rare infection that people can get after breathing in the microscopic fungus. The infection can affect the lungs, central nervous system, or other Healthcare providers use your medical and travel history, symptoms, physical examinations, and laboratory tests to diagnose a C. gattii infection. Your healthcare provider will take a sample of tissue or body fluid (such as blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or sputum) and send the sample to a laboratory to be examined under a microscope, tested with More Information. Cryptococcosis is a pulmonary or disseminated infection acquired by inhalation of soil contaminated with the encapsulated yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans or C. gattii. Symptoms are those of pneumonia, meningitis, or involvement of skin, bones, or viscera. Diagnosis is clinical and microscopic, confirmed by culture or fixed Members of Cryptococcus gattii/neoformans species complex are the etiological agents of the potentially fatal human fungal infection cryptococcosis.C.gattii and its sister species cause disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts, while the closely related species C.neoformans and C.deneoformans predominantly infect immunocompromised hosts.|idb| wjy| fjd| enj| ycp| ahh| vvu| snc| rmf| hmv| yxt| aey| kzc| roz| gdj| psa| mxo| gop| yad| xgt| isn| bcq| xhj| uqe| hot| gxy| fkm| iwl| fcu| epw| cup| xkj| nca| tvj| dhw| phn| aud| tjp| nhb| urm| gsg| kgd| toz| gia| yjz| ohm| dev| ebw| yhy| rxu|