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

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

Interspecies hybrids of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii have only recently been reported. We describe a novel C. neoformans × 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marjan Bovers, Ferry Hagen, Eiko E. Kuramae, Hans L. Hoogveld, Françoise Dromer, Guy St-Germain, Teun Boekhout
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Cryptococcus neoformans
Cryptococcus gattii
hybrids
serotype AB
HIV
AIDS
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/7/08-0122_article

Internet

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/7/08-0122_article

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