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Cryptococcus gattii Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient from Southern Italy

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Cryptococcus gattii has becoming more prevalent in temperate climate zones, during the past decades. We describe a C. gattii serotype B infection in an immunocompetent Italian patient with sclerosing cholangitis. The patient traveled once to Eastern Canada and otherwise no other countries than Italy were visited. Molecular analysis revealed that the C. gattii isolate belong to genotype AFLP4/VGI and has mating-type α which is the most common genotype in the Mediterranean environment. The C. gattii strain was found to be closely related, but not identical, to other C. gattii strains from the Mediterranean area.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, Section of Hygiene, “Aldo Moro” University of Bari, Piazza G. Cesare, 11, 70124, Bari, Italy

    Roberta Iatta & Maria Teresa Montagna

  2. Department of Yeast and Basidiomycete Research, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Ferry Hagen & Teun Boekhout

  3. Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Ferry Hagen

  4. Department of Infectious Disease, Triggiano Hospital, Bari, Italy

    Cecilia Fico

  5. Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, Triggiano Hospital, Bari, Italy

    Nunzia Lopatriello

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Iatta, R., Hagen, F., Fico, C. et al. Cryptococcus gattii Infection in an Immunocompetent Patient from Southern Italy. Mycopathologia 174, 87–92 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-011-9493-8

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