Cryptococcus

Researchers have identified a highly fatal emerging disease caused by the spores of a fungus known as Cryptococcus gattii, or C. gattii.

Killer fungus from Oregon could spread across the West Coast 2010

Researchers have identified a highly fatal emerging disease caused by the spores of a fungus known as Cryptococcus gattii, or C. gattii.

Killer fungus from Oregon could spread across the West Coast 2010

A research study out of Duke University has found that a dangerous mutated form of an airborne fungus called Cryptococcus gattii is spreading across the Northwest United States and some parts of Western Canada.

Republic Broadcasting Network 2010

In the late fall of 2007, Bob Lewis was diagnosed with a rare fungal infection called Cryptococcus gattii.

NPR Topics: News 2010

Bob Lewis was diagnosed with a rare fungal infection called Cryptococcus gattii.

NPR Topics: News 2010

The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the researchers said.

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This other bug, called Cryptococcus neoformans, causes a hard-to-treat brain infection in people with weakened immune systems.

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Bob Lewis was diagnosed with a rare fungal infection called Cryptococcus gattii.

NPR Topics: News 2010

This other bug, called Cryptococcus neoformans, causes a hard-to-treat brain infection in people with weakened immune systems.

EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Public Radio 2010

In the late fall of 2007, Bob Lewis was diagnosed with a rare fungal infection called Cryptococcus gattii.

NPR Topics: News 2010