Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGII as agent of meningitis in a healthy child in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: report of an autochthonous case Cryptococcus gattii tipo molecular VGII como agente causador de meningoencefalite em criança saudável no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: relato de um caso autóctone

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Vitor Laerte Pinto Junior, Marcos Vinicius da Silva Pone, Sheila Moura Pone, João Maurício Scarpellini Campos, José Roberto Pereira Garrido, Ana Cláudia Mamede Wiering de Barros, Luciana Trilles, Gláucia Gonçalves Barbosa, Bernardina Penarrieta Morales, Cláudia de Carvalho Falci Bezerra, Márcia dos Santos Lazéra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2010
• Subjects: Meningoencefalite; Imunocompetente; Cryptococcus gattii; Meningoencephalitis; Immunocompetent; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Canada; British Columbia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822010000600032; https://doaj.org/article/d4b215e36e314d9d87faeb0b7de6b852

Cryptococcus gattii causes meningoencephalitis in immunocompetent hosts, occurring endemically in some tropical and subtropical regions. Recently, this fungus was involved in an outbreak in Vancouver Island and British Columbia (Canada). In this temperate region, the VGII type is predominant. The pa...