Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in Man, Japan, 2007

We report a patient in Japan infected with Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa who had no recent history of travel to disease-endemic areas. This strain was identical to the Vancouver Island outbreak strain R265. Our results suggest that this virulent strain has spread to regions outside North Americ...

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Autores principales: Okamoto, Koh, Hatakeyama, Shuji, Itoyama, Satoru, Nukui, Yoko, Yoshino, Yusuke, Kitazawa, Takatoshi, Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi, Ikeda, Reiko, Sugita, Takashi, Koike, Kazuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20587194
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1607.100106
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Sumario:We report a patient in Japan infected with Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa who had no recent history of travel to disease-endemic areas. This strain was identical to the Vancouver Island outbreak strain R265. Our results suggest that this virulent strain has spread to regions outside North America.

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