RT Book, Section
A1 Casadevall, Arturo
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141412647
T1 CRYPTOCOCCOSIS
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141412647
RD 2024/04/20
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.