Cryptococcus neofarmans varieties as agents of cryptococcosis in Brazil
Arq. bras. med
; 66(3): 261-3, maio-jun. 1992.
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RESUMO
The study of the clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neofarmans from 83 brazilian patients with disseminated cryptococcosis showed that 75 were C. neoformans var. neoformans and eight were var. gattii. Twenty-seven isolates were serotyped; all 19 var. neoforms were serotype A and all eight var. gattii were serotype B. The correlation of the varieties of C. neoformans with the presence or not of hosts predisposing conditions to the micosis showed that 1) cryptococcosis caused by gatti variety occurred in seven (58,3%) of the 12 nonimmunosuppressed patientes; 2) cryptococcosis caused by neoformans variety occurred in 65 (98.5%) of the 66 AIDS patients and in al five patients with other immunosuppressive conditions. The comparison of the distribution of the gattii and neoformans varieties between the nonimmunosuppressed and immunosuppressed patientes showed a significant statistical difference (p < 0.01). Comparing our data with that collected from literature it may be presumed that C. neoformans var. neoformans bvehaves as an oportunistic fungi and that C. neoformans var. gattii behaves like a pathologenic one
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
LILACS
Assunto principal:
Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida
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Criptococose
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Arq. bras. med
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
Ano de publicação:
1992
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Brasil