Fatal Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGI infection in an HIV-positive patient in Barranquilla, Colombia

ABSTRACT Cryptococcosis is a major invasive fungal disease related worldwide with the AIDS population. New reports of HIV/AIDS cases to the national public health surveillance system (SIVIGILA) in Colombia have shown that there is a growing community at risk of contracting cryptococcosis throughout...

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Published in:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors: María Clara Noguera, Patricia Escandón, Elizabeth Castañeda
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Subjects:
Cryptococcus gattii VGI
Cryptococcosis
Colombia
Blood culture
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201759034
https://doaj.org/article/2499015f8ed24dab99ba3eb3c4eb9bcb
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Summary:ABSTRACT Cryptococcosis is a major invasive fungal disease related worldwide with the AIDS population. New reports of HIV/AIDS cases to the national public health surveillance system (SIVIGILA) in Colombia have shown that there is a growing community at risk of contracting cryptococcosis throughout the country who do not have access to ART. Even though the most prevalent species Cryptococcus neoformans is mainly associated with the HIV population, we report a fatal case of cryptococcosis in an AIDS patient in Barranquilla, associated with Cryptococcus gattii VGI, isolated from blood culture.

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