Cryptococcus gattii

Cryptococcus gattii
a species, closely related to C. neoformans, that causes cryptococcosis, chiefly in immunocompetent persons; it occurs mainly in subtropical and tropical regions but occasionally in more temperate areas. Its perfect (sexual) stage is Filobasidiella gattii. Called also C. bacillisporus.

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