Book section · September 14, 2023
Cryptococcosis is an infectious disease caused by the encapsulated fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Cryptococcal infection can develop in apparently immunocompetent hosts and these fungi have emerged as important opportunistic pathoge ...
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Book section · January 1, 2021
Fungal infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are life-threatening conditions that generally involve an immunosuppressive event. Many of these infections occur sporadically in the course of a serious underlying disease. However, outbreaks of CNS fu ...
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Book section · January 1, 2021
With advances in modern medicine, patients are now living with increasingly complex medical comorbidities, and often with increasingly fragile immunity. As a result, larger populations are susceptible to infections from once infrequently seen fungal opport ...
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Book section · February 13, 2019
This new edition of Antifungal Therapy aims at providing concise, practical, need-to-know information for busy physicians dealing with fungal infections, such as infectious disease physicians, transplant surgeons, dermatologists, and ... ...
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Book section · February 13, 2019
This new edition of Antifungal Therapy aims at providing concise, practical, need-to-know information for busy physicians dealing with fungal infections, such as infectious disease physicians, transplant surgeons, dermatologists, and ... ...
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Book section · September 5, 2017
In its short history of a century and a half, of which the last half-century brought the most dramatic advances, scientific medicine has found ways to cure or to treat millions of ill people who 200 years ago would have died early. Paradoxically, these suc ...
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Book section · January 1, 2017
There are over 30 different Cryptococcus species (spp.), with C. neoformans and C. gattii being the two primary human pathogens responsible for the fungal disease, cryptococcosis. These encapsulated basidiomycetous yeasts have important differences in thei ...
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Book section · January 1, 2015
Cryptococcosis is an infectious disease caused by the encapsulated fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii Once a relatively uncommon cause of human disease, cryptococcal infection can develop in apparently immunocompetent hosts and has emerg ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
This chapter considers over a century of clinical experience to examine the encapsulated yeast Cryptococcus, to identify the highlights of its maturation in identifying, understanding, diagnosing, and managing this major emerging fungal pathogen. In the ar ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
As molecular studies are applied to study the pathogenesis of invasive mycoses, it is essential that the parameters of the host-parasite interactions are known. The issue of clinical antifungal drug resistance and the impact of molecular studies on these i ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
This chapter reviews the evidence of disease after acute infection and reactivation of latent infection, considering the newer epidemiological and serological studies and the older anatomical evidence. Cryptococcal meningitis was diagnosed in an HIV-infect ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
The main principles for the genetic pathophysiology of cryptococcosis will probably be consistent among all three varieties. In this chapter the author considers the yeasts to be different varieties or serotypes. Seven major areas are examined to support t ...
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Book section · January 1, 2011
Phaeohyphomycosis, a term first introduced by Ajello and colleagues [1], is an encompassing clinical designation for a spectrum of infections caused by darkly pigmented moulds [2, 3]. In its simplest definition, phaeohyphomycosis is an infection caused by ...
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Book section · January 1, 2011
In 2007, the first confirmed case of Cryptococcus gattii was reported in the state of North Carolina, USA. An otherwise healthy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) negative male patient presented with a large upper thigh cryptococcoma in February, which was ...
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Book section · January 1, 2007
Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that can cause life-threatening infectious diseases in both apparently immunocompetent and immunocompromised hosts in all areas of the world. This pathogenic yeast consists of four serotypes (A, B, C, and D) ...
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Book section · January 1, 2004
The incidence of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) is increasing at an alarming rate. In the past decade alone, Candida spp. have become the fourth leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections in the United States (1). The incidence of Aspergillus in ...
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