Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent patient from Southern Italy

Roberta Iatta; Ferry Hagen; Cecilia Fico; Nunzia Lopatriello; Teun Boekhout; Maria Teresa Montagna

doi:10.1007/s11046-011-9493-8

Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent patient from Southern Italy

Roberta Iatta^*
, Ferry Hagen
, Cecilia Fico
, Nunzia Lopatriello
, Teun Boekhout
, Maria Teresa Montagna

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	87-92
Number of pages	6
Journal	Mycopathologia
Volume	174
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-011-9493-8
Publication status	Published - Jul 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Adult
Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis
Cholangitis, Sclerosing/complications
Cluster Analysis
Cryptococcosis/diagnosis
Cryptococcus gattii/isolation & purification
Genes, Mating Type, Fungal
Humans
Italy
Male
Molecular Typing
Mycological Typing Techniques
Phylogeny
Radiography, Thoracic
Serotyping
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

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Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent patient from Southern Italy

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