Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats

Two cats infected by C. gattii, presented lesions on the nasal region and respiratory signs. Strains were typed as molecular type VGII, mating type alpha, MLST subtypes ST442 and ST185. Since Rio de Janeiro is known as an endemic area for C. neoformans VNI, these cases might be a warning for a possi...

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Autores principales: Brito-Santos, Fábio, Reis, Rosani Santos, Coelho, Rowena Alves, Almeida-Paes, Rodrigo, Pereira, Sandro Antônio, Trilles, Luciana, Meyer, Wieland, Wanke, Bodo, Lazéra, Márcia dos Santos, Gremião, Isabella Dib Ferreira
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.04.004
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author Brito-Santos, Fábio
Reis, Rosani Santos
Coelho, Rowena Alves
Almeida-Paes, Rodrigo
Pereira, Sandro Antônio
Trilles, Luciana
Meyer, Wieland
Wanke, Bodo
Lazéra, Márcia dos Santos
Gremião, Isabella Dib Ferreira
author_facet Brito-Santos, Fábio
Reis, Rosani Santos
Coelho, Rowena Alves
Almeida-Paes, Rodrigo
Pereira, Sandro Antônio
Trilles, Luciana
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description Two cats infected by C. gattii, presented lesions on the nasal region and respiratory signs. Strains were typed as molecular type VGII, mating type alpha, MLST subtypes ST442 and ST185. Since Rio de Janeiro is known as an endemic area for C. neoformans VNI, these cases might be a warning for a possible emergence of C. gattii VGII in southeast Brazil.
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spelling pubmed-64873532019-05-06 Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats Brito-Santos, Fábio Reis, Rosani Santos Coelho, Rowena Alves Almeida-Paes, Rodrigo Pereira, Sandro Antônio Trilles, Luciana Meyer, Wieland Wanke, Bodo Lazéra, Márcia dos Santos Gremião, Isabella Dib Ferreira Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Two cats infected by C. gattii, presented lesions on the nasal region and respiratory signs. Strains were typed as molecular type VGII, mating type alpha, MLST subtypes ST442 and ST185. Since Rio de Janeiro is known as an endemic area for C. neoformans VNI, these cases might be a warning for a possible emergence of C. gattii VGII in southeast Brazil. Elsevier 2019-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6487353/ /pubmed/31061785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.04.004 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Brito-Santos, Fábio
Reis, Rosani Santos
Coelho, Rowena Alves
Almeida-Paes, Rodrigo
Pereira, Sandro Antônio
Trilles, Luciana
Meyer, Wieland
Wanke, Bodo
Lazéra, Márcia dos Santos
Gremião, Isabella Dib Ferreira
Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
title Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
title_full Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
title_fullStr Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
title_short Cryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii VGII in southeast Brazil: The One Health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
title_sort cryptococcosis due to cryptococcus gattii vgii in southeast brazil: the one health approach revealing a possible role for domestic cats
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31061785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.04.004
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