The infectious fungus Cryptococcus neoformans rapidly enlarges and shrinks in size to withstand different microenvironments in the body. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

ABOUT 500 cases of human infection due to Cryptococcus neoformans have been described since Busse and Buschke separately presented descriptions of clinical findings in the same patient. In addition ...

What is Cryptococcus, who does it affect and how many people does it kill each year? Cryptococcus is a fungus found in the environment throughout the world that is able to cause disease in humans.

A ten-year effort by an international team has sequenced the entire genome and all the RNA products of the most important pathogenic lineage of Cryptococcus neoformans, a strain called H99.These ...

Photomicrograph of Cryptococcus deneoformans (IMAGE) Duke University Caption This photomicrograph depicts Cryptococcus neoformans a fungal pathogen that has been causing an increasing number of ...

Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...

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Human-to-human transmission of cryptococcosis is very rare. 1–3 An 80-year-old man (Patient A) was hospitalized because of pulmonary squamous-cell carcinoma. He received mechanical ventilation and was ...