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Global
 
Africa
 
Multinational

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries        
  
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Many globally isolated AD hybrid strains of Cryptococcus neoformans originated in Africa.
Litvintseva AP, Lin X, Templeton I, et al
PLoS Pathog. 2007 Aug 17;3(8)
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Kenya
 
           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
  Molecular types of Cryptococcus gattii/Cryptococcus neoformans species complex from clinical and environmental sources in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kangogo M, Bader O, Boga H,  et al
Mycoses. 2015 Sep 25
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Predictors of outcome in routine care for Cryptococcal meningitis in Western Kenya: lessons for HIV outpatient care in
resource-limited settings.
Kendi C, Penner J, Koech J, et al
Postgrad Med J. 2012 Oct 30.
Abstract
 
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           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
  Non-neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in patients with AIDS in Bamako, Mali: 2 case reports.
Minta DK, Traoré AM, Coulibaly I, et al
 J Mycol Med. 2013 Dec 30
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Morocco
 
           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
  Cryptococcal neuromeningitis in immunosuppressed subjects at Rabat University Hospital
(Morocco).
Aoufi S, Agoumi A, Seqat M.  |
Ann Biol Clin (Paris). 2008 Jan-Feb;66(1):79-81
Abstract

Uganda

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries     

  Cryptococcal infection in a cohort of HIV-1-infected Ugandan adults.
French N, Gray K, Watera C, et al
AIDS 2002 May 3;16(7):1031-8
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South Africa

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  

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Establishing a cost-per-result of laboratory-based, reflex Cryptococcal antigenaemia screening (CrAg) in HIV+ patients with CD4 counts less than 100 cells/μl using a Lateral Flow Assay (FA) at a typical busy CD4 laboratory in South Africa
Cassim N, Schnippel K, Coetzee LM, Glencross DK.
 PLoS One. 2017 Feb 6;12(2):e0171675.
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FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Cost Effectiveness of Cryptococcal Antigen Screening as a Strategy to Prevent HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis in South Africa.
 Jarvis JN, Harrison TS, Lawn SD,  et al
PLoS One. 2013 Jul 19;8(7):e69288.
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A comparison of paediatric- and adult-onset cryptococcosis detected through population-based surveillance in South Africa, 2005-2007.
Meiring ST, Quan VC, Cohen C,  et al
AIDS. 2012 Jun 27
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Senegal

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Update on neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in Dakar
Soumare M, Seydi M, Ndour CT,
Med Trop (Mars). 2005 Nov;65(6):559-62.
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Tunisia
 
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Pulmonary cryptococcosis presenting as acute severe respiratory distress in a newly diagnosed HIV patient in Tanzania: a case report.
Gunda DW, Bakshi FA, Rambau P, Kilonzo SB.
Clin Case Rep. 2015 Sep;3(9):749-52.
Abstract

Twenty-two cases of neuromeningeal cryptococcosis in Tunisia.
Kaouech E, Kallel K, Belhadj S, et al
 Med Mal Infect. 2009 Apr 7.
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Zambia

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Clinical presentation, natural history, and cumulative death rates of 230 adults
with primary cryptococcal meningitis in Zambian AIDS patients treated under
local conditions.
Mwaba P, Mwansa J, Chintu C, 
Postgrad Med J 2001 Dec;77(914):769-73
Abstract
 
Zimbabwe
 
            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
  Impact of HIV infection on meningitis in Harare, Zimbabwe: a prospective study of 406
predominantly adult patients.
Hakim JG, Gangaidzo IT, Heyderman RS, et al.
AIDS 2000 Jul 7;14(10):1401-7
 Abstract
Asia
 
China

              Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Cryptococcosis in patients with hematological diseases: a 14-year retrospective clinical analysis in a Chinese tertiary hospital.
Wang RY, Chen YQ, Wu JQ, et al 
BMC Infect Dis. 2017 Jul 3;17(1):463.
Paper

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Skeletal cryptococcosis from 1977 to 2013.
Zhou HX, Lu L, Chu T, et al
 Front Microbiol. 2015 Jan 14;5:740.
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India
 
            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
 
 
Association of neurotropic viruses in HIV infected Individuals died of secondary complications of tuberculosis, cryptococcosis or toxoplasmosis: A study from India (South).
Kannangai R, Sachithanandham J, Mahadevan A,  et al
J Clin Microbiol. 2013 Jan 2.
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Japan

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Determination of Epidemiology of Clinically Isolated Cryptococcus neoformans Strains in Japan by Multilocus Sequence Typing.
Umeyama T, Ohno H, Minamoto F, et al
Jpn J Infect Dis. 2013;66(1):51-5.
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Malaysia
 
        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Detection of IgM and IgG antibodies to Cryptococcus neoformans proteins in blood donors and HIV
patients with active cryptococcosis.
Chai HC, Tay ST.
Mycoses. 2008 Jul 15.
Abstract
 
Taiwan
 
        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
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Increasing trend of fluconazole-non-susceptible Cryptococcus neoformans in patients with invasive cryptococcosis: a 12-year longitudinal study.
Chen YC, Chang TY, Liu JW,  et al
 BMC Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 22;15:277.
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Thailand

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 

Diversity and Antifungal Drug Susceptibility of Cryptococcus Isolates in Thailand.
Worasilchai N, Tangwattanachuleeporn M, Meesilpavikkai K,  et al
 Med Mycol. 2016 Dec 3.
Abstract

Determinants of Mortality in a Combined Cohort of 501 Patients with HIV-associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: Implications for Improving Outcomes.
 Jarvis JN, Bicanic T, Loyse A,  et al
Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Dec
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Australia/Pacific Islands
 
Australia
 
            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
    
  Cryptococcosis in Australasia and the treatment of cryptococcal and other
fungal infections with liposomal amphotericin B.
Chen SC. 
 J Antimicrob Chemother 2002 Jan;49   Suppl A:57-61
Abstract
Europe
 
Multinational
 
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  "Time-to-Amphotericin B" in Cryptococcal Meningitis in a European Low-Prevalence Setting: Analysis of Diagnostic Delays.
Katchanov J, von Kleist M, Arastéh K, Stocker H.
QJM. 2014 Apr 10.
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Italy

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
AIDS-associated cryptococcosis: a comparison of epidemiology, clinical features and outcome in the
pre- and post-HAART eras. Experience of a single centre in Italy.
Antinori S, Ridolfo A, Fasan M, Magni C, et al 
HIV Med. 2009 Jan;10(1):6-11.
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Portugal

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries     

  HIV/AIDS-Associated Cryptococcosis in Portugal Spanning the Pre- to Post-HAART Era: A Retrospective Assessment at the Genotypic Level Based on URA5-RFLP.
Maduro AP, Gonçalves L, Inácio J, et al
Curr Microbiol. 2015 Jul 14.
 Abstract

United Kingdom  

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries     

  Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii meningitis in an HIV-positive patient: first observation
in the United Kingdom.
Bodasing N, Seaton RA, Shankland GS, Kennedy D 
J Infect. 2004 Oct;49(3):253-5.
Abstract
Latin America/Caribbean
 
Multinational
 
            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries   
 
  Strategies to reduce mortality and morbidity due to AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis in Latin America.
 Vidal JE, Penalva de Oliveira AC, Dauar RF, Boulware DR.
Braz J Infect Dis. 2013 May 9.
Abstract

Argentina

             Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries   
 
  Cryptococcosis in an Infectious Diseases Hospital of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revision of 2041 cases: Diagnosis, clinical features and therapeutics
Arechavala A, Negroni R, Messina F,  et al
Rev Iberoam Micol. 2017 Nov 9.
 Abstract

Cryptococcal meningitis in patients with diabetes and AIDS.
 Messina FA, Negroni R, Maiolo EI,  et al
 Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2013 Dec 20.
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Brazil

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries       

 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
The epidemiology of cryptococcosis and the characterization of Cryptococcus neoformans isolated in a Brazilian University Hospital.
Aguiar PADF, Pedroso RDS, Borges AS,  et al 
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2017 Apr 13;59:e13.
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Asymptomatic Cryptococcal Antigen Prevalence detected by Lateral Flow Assay in Hospitalized HIV-Infected Patients in São Paulo, Brazil.
Vidal JE, Toniolo C, Paulino A, Colombo A, et al
Trop Med Int Health. 2016 Oct 3.
Abstract

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 Population Genetic Analysis Reveals a High Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Cryptococcus gattii VGII Population and Shifts the Global Origin from the Amazon Rainforest to the Semi-arid Desert in the Northeast of Brazil.
Souto AC, Bonfietti LX, Ferreira-Paim K,  et al
 PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Aug 16;10(8):e0004885.
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Molecular characterisation and antifungal susceptibility of clinical Cryptococcus deuterogattii (AFLP6/VGII) isolates from Southern Brazil.
Herkert PF, Hagen F, de Oliveira Salvador GL,  et al
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2016 Aug
Abstract

Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis in Brazil: report of 11 cases in immunocompetent and immunosuppressed patients.
Marques SA, Bastazini I Jr, Martins AL,  et al
Int J Dermatol. 2012 Jul;51(7):780-4.
Abstract

Disseminated Histoplasma capsulatum and Cryptococcus neoformans Co-Infection in Patientswith AIDS.
Aronis ML, Dos Santos RP, Goldani LZ.
Mycopathologia. 2011 Apr 7.
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Chile

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries          

  Antifungal susceptibilities, varieties, and electrophoretic karyotypes of clinical
isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela.
Calvo BM, Colombo AL, Fischman O, et al.
Clin Microbiol 2001 Jun;39(6):2348-50
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Columbia

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries   
      
  Results of nine years of the clinical and epidemiological survey on cryptococcosis in Colombia,
1997-2005.
Lizarazo J, Linares M, de Bedout C, et al 
Biomedica. 2007 Mar;27(1):94-109.
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Peru

            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries     
     
  Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii isolates from two Peruvian patients.
Bustamante Rufino B, Swinne D.
Rev Iberoam Micol. 1998 Mar;15(1):22-4.
 Abstract

Venezuela

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Antifungal susceptibilities, varieties, and electrophoretic karyotypes of clinical isolates
of Cryptococcus neoformans from Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela.
Calvo BM, Colombo AL, Fischman O, et al.
J Clin Microbiol 2001 Jun;39(6):2348-50
 Abstract
 
Middle East
 
Iran
 
            Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries 
    
  Cryptococcal meningitis due to Cryptococcus neoformans genotype AFLP1/VNI in Iran: a review of the literature.
Badali H, Alian S, Fakhim H, et al,  
Mycoses. 2015 Oct 7.
Abstract

Prevalence, molecular characteristics and risk factors of Cryptosporidiosis among Iranian
immunocompromised patients.
Izadi M, Jonaidi-Jafari N, Saburi A, et al
Microbiol Immunol. 2012 Oct 23.
Abstract
North America
 
Canada
 
           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Longitudinal Clinical Findings and Outcome among Cryptococcus gattii Patients in British Columbia.
Phillips P, Galanis E, MacDougall L, et al
 Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Jan 28. pii: civ041
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United States

       Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Cryptococcus gattii VGIII Isolates Causing Infections in HIV/AIDS Patients in Southern California: Identification of the Local Environmental Source as Arboreal.
Springer DJ, Billmyre RB, Filler EE,  et al
PLoS Pathog. 2014 Aug 21;10(8):e1004285.
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Cryptococcosis-related deaths and associated medical conditions in the United States, 2000-2010.
Barragan NC, Sorvillo F, Kuo T.
 Mycoses. 2014 Aug 18.
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FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Prevalence and correlates of cryptococcal antigen positivity among AIDS patients - United States, 1986-2012.
McKenney J, Smith RM, Chiller TM,  et al
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Jul 11;63(27):585-7.
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LETTER
Recognition and Diagnosis of Cryptococcus gattii Infections in the United States.
Iverson SA, Chiller T, Beekmann S et al 
Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Jun;18(6):1012-5.
Commentary

FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Fatal Disseminated Cryptococcus gattii Infection in New Mexico.
Walraven CJ , Gerstein W , Hardison SE , et al.
PLoS ONE 6(12): e28625
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FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
A Diverse Population of Cryptococcus gattii Molecular Type VGIII in Southern Californian HIV/AIDS Patients.
Byrnes EJ 3rd, Li W, Ren P,  et al
PLoS Pathog. 2011 Sep;7(9):e1002205.
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Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGI Infection in New England.
McCulloh RJ, Phillips R,
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011 Aug
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FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii--- Pacific Northwest, 2004--2010.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC
.MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2010 Jul 23;59(28):865-8
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