A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas

Cryptococcus gattii is an underrecognized cause of meningitis, especially in nonendemic regions. This report details C gattii disease progression from admission to autopsy in an otherwise healthy 40-year-old male in Texas. It brings awareness to an often unsuspected organism that can cause severe in...

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Autores principales: Nielsen, Marisa C, Peterson, Joshua M, Shine, Billie, Hornak, J Patrik, Esechie, Aimalohi, Bhatt, Sandeep, Desai, Kinjal, Dabi, Alok, Felicella, Michelle M, Ren, Ping
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35854998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac236
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author Nielsen, Marisa C
Peterson, Joshua M
Shine, Billie
Hornak, J Patrik
Esechie, Aimalohi
Bhatt, Sandeep
Desai, Kinjal
Dabi, Alok
Felicella, Michelle M
Ren, Ping
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Peterson, Joshua M
Shine, Billie
Hornak, J Patrik
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description Cryptococcus gattii is an underrecognized cause of meningitis, especially in nonendemic regions. This report details C gattii disease progression from admission to autopsy in an otherwise healthy 40-year-old male in Texas. It brings awareness to an often unsuspected organism that can cause severe infection requiring early recognition and treatment in immunocompetent individuals.
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spelling pubmed-92776482022-07-18 A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas Nielsen, Marisa C Peterson, Joshua M Shine, Billie Hornak, J Patrik Esechie, Aimalohi Bhatt, Sandeep Desai, Kinjal Dabi, Alok Felicella, Michelle M Ren, Ping Open Forum Infect Dis Id Teaching Cases Cryptococcus gattii is an underrecognized cause of meningitis, especially in nonendemic regions. This report details C gattii disease progression from admission to autopsy in an otherwise healthy 40-year-old male in Texas. It brings awareness to an often unsuspected organism that can cause severe infection requiring early recognition and treatment in immunocompetent individuals. Oxford University Press 2022-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9277648/ /pubmed/35854998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac236 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Nielsen, Marisa C
Peterson, Joshua M
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Hornak, J Patrik
Esechie, Aimalohi
Bhatt, Sandeep
Desai, Kinjal
Dabi, Alok
Felicella, Michelle M
Ren, Ping
A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas
title A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas
title_full A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas
title_fullStr A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas
title_full_unstemmed A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas
title_short A Fatal Fungal Infection: Cryptococcus gattii (VGI) Meningitis in Texas
title_sort fatal fungal infection: cryptococcus gattii (vgi) meningitis in texas
topic Id Teaching Cases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35854998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac236
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