AIDS Patient Death Caused by Novel Cryptococcus neoformans × C. gattii Hybrid

Bovers, Marjan; Hagen, Ferry; Kuramae, Eiko E.; Hoogveld, Hans L.; Dromer, Françoise; St-Germain, Guy; Boekhout, Teun

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AIDS Patient Death Caused by Novel Cryptococcus neoformans × C. gattii Hybrid

Published Date:

Jul 2008

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Emerg Infect Dis. 14(7):1105-1108.

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Bovers, Marjan ; Hagen, Ferry ; Kuramae, Eiko E. ; Hoogveld, Hans L. ; Dromer, Françoise ; ... More ▼

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Interspecies hybrids of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii have only recently been reported. We describe a novel C. neoformans x C. gattii hybrid strain (serotype AB) that was previously described as C. gattii and that caused a lethal infection in an AIDS patient from Canada.

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

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