Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review

A 39-year-old man presented to our hospital with a four-week history of headache and a two-week history of low-grade fever. Chest X-rays showed a tumor of approximately 50 mm in size in the right lower field. A histopathological examination of a transbronchial lung biopsy specimen from the right S9/...

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Autores principales: Nakao, Makoto, Muramatsu, Hideki, Takahashi, Tetsushi, Niwa, Shunsuke, Kagawa, Yusuke, Kurokawa, Ryota, Sone, Kazuki, Uozumi, Yuki, Ohkusu, Misako, Kamei, Katsuhiko, Koga, Hiroshi
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Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27746442
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author Nakao, Makoto
Muramatsu, Hideki
Takahashi, Tetsushi
Niwa, Shunsuke
Kagawa, Yusuke
Kurokawa, Ryota
Sone, Kazuki
Uozumi, Yuki
Ohkusu, Misako
Kamei, Katsuhiko
Koga, Hiroshi
author_facet Nakao, Makoto
Muramatsu, Hideki
Takahashi, Tetsushi
Niwa, Shunsuke
Kagawa, Yusuke
Kurokawa, Ryota
Sone, Kazuki
Uozumi, Yuki
Ohkusu, Misako
Kamei, Katsuhiko
Koga, Hiroshi
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description A 39-year-old man presented to our hospital with a four-week history of headache and a two-week history of low-grade fever. Chest X-rays showed a tumor of approximately 50 mm in size in the right lower field. A histopathological examination of a transbronchial lung biopsy specimen from the right S9/10 revealed numerous fungal elements that appeared as encapsulated yeast with clear halos. Gadolinium-enhanced brain magnetic resonance images showed multiple cerebral nodules. Cryptococcus gattii (Genotype VGIIa) was isolated from the bronchial lavage and cerebrospinal fluid specimens. The patient was an immunocompetent Japanese man who had not recently traveled to a C. gattii-endemic area.
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spelling pubmed-51095722016-11-17 Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review Nakao, Makoto Muramatsu, Hideki Takahashi, Tetsushi Niwa, Shunsuke Kagawa, Yusuke Kurokawa, Ryota Sone, Kazuki Uozumi, Yuki Ohkusu, Misako Kamei, Katsuhiko Koga, Hiroshi Intern Med Case Report A 39-year-old man presented to our hospital with a four-week history of headache and a two-week history of low-grade fever. Chest X-rays showed a tumor of approximately 50 mm in size in the right lower field. A histopathological examination of a transbronchial lung biopsy specimen from the right S9/10 revealed numerous fungal elements that appeared as encapsulated yeast with clear halos. Gadolinium-enhanced brain magnetic resonance images showed multiple cerebral nodules. Cryptococcus gattii (Genotype VGIIa) was isolated from the bronchial lavage and cerebrospinal fluid specimens. The patient was an immunocompetent Japanese man who had not recently traveled to a C. gattii-endemic area. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2016-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5109572/ /pubmed/27746442 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Nakao, Makoto
Muramatsu, Hideki
Takahashi, Tetsushi
Niwa, Shunsuke
Kagawa, Yusuke
Kurokawa, Ryota
Sone, Kazuki
Uozumi, Yuki
Ohkusu, Misako
Kamei, Katsuhiko
Koga, Hiroshi
Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review
title Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review
title_full Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review
title_fullStr Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review
title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review
title_short Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in an Immunocompetent Japanese Patient: A Case Report and Mini-review
title_sort cryptococcus gattii genotype vgiia infection in an immunocompetent japanese patient: a case report and mini-review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27746442
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