| environmental isolation of cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcus gattii from living trees in guindy national park, chennai, south india. | we report for the first time the environmental isolation of cryptococcus neoformans from decaying wood and bark debris of living trees in guindy national park, chennai, south india. of the 40 trees screened, four isolates of cryptococcus species were recovered of which two were cryptococcus gattii, one was c. neoformans and one was untypable. the isolation of c. neoformans from eucalyptus globulus and c. gattii from cassia marginata in this study constitutes the first record of the natural occur ... | 2010 | 19389069 |