Cryptococcus gattii in the United States: Clinical Aspects of Infection With an Emerging Pathogen
Author(s) -
Julie R. Harris,
Shawn R. Lockhart,
Emilio DeBess,
Nicola Marsden-Haug,
Marcia Goldoft,
Ron Wohrle,
Sang Lee,
Chad Smelser,
B. Park,
Tom Chiller
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cir723
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , cryptococcus gattii , meningitis , pneumonia , odds ratio , retrospective cohort study , genotype , immunology , pediatrics , cryptococcosis , virology , biology , biochemistry , gene
Cryptococcus gattii (Cg) has caused increasing infections in the US Pacific Northwest (PNW) since 2004. We describe this outbreak and compare clinical aspects of infection in the United States among patients infected with different Cg genotypes.
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