Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

We describe a case of chronic meningoencephalitis with hydrocephalus caused by Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) in an immunocompetent patient from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This first report of a member of the Cryptococcus gattii species complex from Bolivia suggests that C. bacillisporus (VGIII) is pr...

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Autores principales: Thompson, Luis, Porte, Lorena, Díaz, Violeta, Díaz, María Cristina, Solar, Sebastián, Valenzuela, Pablo, Norley, Nicole, Pires, Yumai, Carreño, Fernando, Valenzuela, Sergio, Shabani, Rukmane, Rickerts, Volker, Weitzel, Thomas
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7830430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33467409
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7010055
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author Thompson, Luis
Porte, Lorena
Díaz, Violeta
Díaz, María Cristina
Solar, Sebastián
Valenzuela, Pablo
Norley, Nicole
Pires, Yumai
Carreño, Fernando
Valenzuela, Sergio
Shabani, Rukmane
Rickerts, Volker
Weitzel, Thomas
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Porte, Lorena
Díaz, Violeta
Díaz, María Cristina
Solar, Sebastián
Valenzuela, Pablo
Norley, Nicole
Pires, Yumai
Carreño, Fernando
Valenzuela, Sergio
Shabani, Rukmane
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description We describe a case of chronic meningoencephalitis with hydrocephalus caused by Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) in an immunocompetent patient from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This first report of a member of the Cryptococcus gattii species complex from Bolivia suggests that C. bacillisporus (VGIII) is present in this tropical region of the country and complements our epidemiological and clinical knowledge of this group of emerging fungal pathogens in South America.
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spelling pubmed-78304302021-01-26 Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia Thompson, Luis Porte, Lorena Díaz, Violeta Díaz, María Cristina Solar, Sebastián Valenzuela, Pablo Norley, Nicole Pires, Yumai Carreño, Fernando Valenzuela, Sergio Shabani, Rukmane Rickerts, Volker Weitzel, Thomas J Fungi (Basel) Case Report We describe a case of chronic meningoencephalitis with hydrocephalus caused by Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) in an immunocompetent patient from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. This first report of a member of the Cryptococcus gattii species complex from Bolivia suggests that C. bacillisporus (VGIII) is present in this tropical region of the country and complements our epidemiological and clinical knowledge of this group of emerging fungal pathogens in South America. MDPI 2021-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7830430/ /pubmed/33467409 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7010055 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Thompson, Luis
Porte, Lorena
Díaz, Violeta
Díaz, María Cristina
Solar, Sebastián
Valenzuela, Pablo
Norley, Nicole
Pires, Yumai
Carreño, Fernando
Valenzuela, Sergio
Shabani, Rukmane
Rickerts, Volker
Weitzel, Thomas
Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
title Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
title_full Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
title_fullStr Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
title_full_unstemmed Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
title_short Cryptococcus bacillisporus (VGIII) Meningoencephalitis Acquired in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
title_sort cryptococcus bacillisporus (vgiii) meningoencephalitis acquired in santa cruz, bolivia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7830430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33467409
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7010055
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