| cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii infection in northern australia: existence of an environmental source other than known host eucalypts. | the 2 known host trees of cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii, eucalyptus camaldulensis and e. tereticornis, do not occur naturally in the 'top end' of the northern territory (nt) of australia. nine clinical isolates of c. neoformans var. gattii from the nt were analysed by random amplification of polymorphic deoxyribonucleic acid (rapd) and polymerase chain reaction 'fingerprinting'. two isolates were assigned to rapd profile vgi, previously established as the common rapd profile. the remaining ... | 1997 | 9463664 |
| clonality and recombination in genetically differentiated subgroups of cryptococcus gattii. | cryptococcus gattii is a pathogenic yeast that together with cryptococcus neoformans causes cryptococcosis in humans and animals. high numbers of viable c. gattii propagules can be obtained from certain species of australian eucalyptus camaldulensis trees, and an epidemiological link between eucalyptus colonization and human exposure has been proposed. however, the highest prevalence of c. gattii cryptococcosis occurs in papua new guinea and in regions of australia where the eucalypt species imp ... | 2005 | 16087745 |
| cryptococcus infection in tropical australia. | eighteen cases of disease caused by the saprophytic fungi cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcus bacillisporus are described from the northern territory of australia. the majority of infections were with cryptococcus bacillisporus and in the rural aboriginal population, often causing pulmonary mass lesions. | 2004 | 15297551 |
| cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii in australia. | an examination of 45 clinical isolates of cryptococcus neoformans revealed an unusually high incidence of c. neoformans var. gattii in south australia (65%) and in the northern territory (95%). in assessing all the available data from australian isolates of c. neoformans, there appeared to be an endemic focus for the incidence of c. neoformans var. gattii in the rural aboriginal population of the northern territory. | 1987 | 3546370 |
| 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 |