A rare and dangerous fungal infection named Cryptococcus gattii has been quietly spreading from British Columbia southward to the U.S. Pacific Northwest. And it's changing as it goes. Researchers ...

A Diverse Population of Cryptococcus gattii Molecular Type VGIII in Southern Californian HIV/AIDS Patients. PLoS Pathogens , 2011; 7 (9): e1002205 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002205 Cite This Page : ...

A fungus called Cryptococcus gattii can cause life-threatening infections, especially in people with compromised immune systems. One-third of AIDS-related deaths are thought to be caused by the ...

The first U.S. Cryptococcus gattii cases were identified in 2005. It wasn't until the new study, though, that genetic analysis revealed that the fungus is a new strain that had originated in Oregon.

A deadly fungal infection has been spreading across western North America. The number of human and animal cases has grown rapidly in recent years, to the extent that government agencies in US and ...

DURHAM, NC -- Most AIDS patients, when diagnosed with a fungal infection known simply as cryptococcosis, are assumed to have an infection with Cryptococcus neoformans, but a recent study from Duke ...

There were five confirmed human cases in Washington state in 2014 – one each in Clark, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, and Whatcom counties. None of those were fatalities.

Bacterial and viral are the more prevalent and commonly discussed forms of meningitis, but one infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says fungal meningitis stemming from ...

Cryptococcus gattii infections usually begin in the lungs but can spread to the brain and develop into deadly meningitis. The fungus was believed to be largely confined to the tropics until 2001, ...

Most AIDS patients, when diagnosed with a fungal infection known simply as cryptococcosis, ... Cryptococcus gattii, is a more common cause than was previously known. ...