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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Cryptococcus gattii — Cryptococcus neoformans weakly encapsulated (left) as it appears in nature, and (right) rehydrated with thick polysaccharide capsule as it appears once in the lungs. Scientific classification … Wikipedia
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Filobasidiella gattii — the perfect (sexual) stage of Cryptococcus gattii; called also F. bacillispora … Medical dictionary
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