TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - CRYPTOCOCCOSIS A1 - Casadevall, Arturo A2 - Kasper, Dennis L. A2 - Fauci, Anthony S. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e AB - Cryptococcus, a genus of yeast-like fungi, is the etiologic agent of cryptococcosis. Both species, C. neoformans and C. gattii, can cause cryptococcosis in humans. The two varieties of C. neoformans—grubii and neoformans—correlate with serotypes A and D, respectively. C. gattii, although not divided into varieties, also is antigenically diverse, encompassing serotypes B and C. Most clinical microbiology laboratories do not routinely distinguish between C. neoformans and C. gattii, or among varieties, but rather identify and report all isolates simply as C. neoformans. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/11/02 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141412647 ER -