Publications

cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii in a brazilian aids patients.		1990	2250692
natural habitat of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii.	environmental isolations have established that cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii appears to have a specific ecological association with eucalyptus camaldulensis. so far, we have isolated c. neoformans var. gattii on 35 separate occasions, all from samples associated with e. camaldulensis. the global distribution of e. camaldulensis appears to correspond to the epidemiologic distribution of cryptococcosis caused by c. neoformans var. gattii. no other environmental source for the fungus has yet ...	1990	2199524
cryptococcus neoformans var gattii.		1990	1978890
cryptococcosis in seven horses.	the clinical, radiographic and post-mortem findings in 6 horses with cryptococcal pneumonia and one horse with an abdominal cryptococcal granuloma are described. in pulmonary cryptococcosis, the lesions were either diffuse and multiple, with bilateral lung involvement, or localised mainly to the dorsocaudal region of one lung. the cases of diffuse multiple cryptococcosis were thought to be associated with haematogenous spread of the fungus after gastrointestinal infection and dissemination from ...	1992	1642596
virulence, serotype, and molecular characteristics of environmental strains of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii.	four strains of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii originating from eucalyptus camaldulensis, three from australia and one from san francisco, were tested for their serotype, virulence for mice, and a number of genetic and molecular characteristics. all were found to be serotype b and showed significantly higher virulence for mice than did the type strains of c. neoformans var. gattii and filobasidiella neoformans var. bacillispora, which were obtained from human cryptococcosis cases. electroph ...	1992	1563776
[cryptococcosis caused by cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii. a case associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) in kinshasa, zaire].	since the introduction of aids, the biovar neoformans of cryptococcus neoformans has replaced the biovar gattii as the predominant agent of cryptococcal meningitis in kinshasa and in other tropical areas. that this is not an absolute rule is demonstrated by the present case of a hiv-positive patient, observed at the kinshasa university hospital, with cryptococcal meningitis due to the biovar gattii. only four cases of this association have been published before. the authors conclude that both bi ...	1992	1494313
environmental isolation of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii from eucalyptus tereticornis.	as an extension of the previously established association between cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii and eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum) we have now found a similar relationship between c. neoformans var. gattii and the closely related eucalyptus tereticornis (forest red gum). the global distribution of e. tereticornis is similar to that of e. camaldulensis.	1992	1469544
isolation of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii from an asian patient in france: evidence for dormant infection in healthy subjects.	we report the first case of cryptococcosis due to cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii in france. this cambodian, non-aids patient had been living in france for 23 years when he developed cryptococcosis due to c. neoformans serotype b in 1985. it is possible that he was infected back in asia or several months before, in zaire, where he lived between 1981 and 1984. to our knowledge, this is the second case providing clinical evidence for reactivation of latent infection with c. neoformans. the mec ...	1992	1469541
the ecology of cryptococcus neoformans.	environmental isolations have established that cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii serotype b appears to have a specific ecological association with eucalyptus camaldulensis. the global distribution of the tree appears to correspond to the epidemiologic distribution of cryptococcosis caused by c. neoformans var. gattii. the epidemiology of cryptococcosis can primarily be explained by exposure to an infective aerosolized inoculum, such as basidiospores released from specific host plants and/or de ...	1992	1397195