| first reported case of cryptococcus gattii in the southeastern usa: implications for travel-associated acquisition of an emerging pathogen. | in 2007, the first confirmed case of cryptococcus gattii was reported in the state of north carolina, usa. an otherwise healthy hiv negative male patient presented with a large upper thigh cryptococcoma in february, which was surgically removed and the patient was started on long-term high-dose fluconazole treatment. in may of 2007, the patient presented to the duke university hospital emergency room with seizures. magnetic resonance imaging revealed two large cns lesions found to be cryptococco ... | 2009 | 19516904 |