First isolation of Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGII and Cryptococcus neoformans molecular type VNI from environmental sources in the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Solange Do Pse Costa²  Márcia Dos S Lazéra¹  Wallace Ra Santos¹  Bernardina P Morales¹  Cláudia Cf Bezerra¹  Marília M Nishikawa¹  Gláucia G Barbosa¹  Luciana Trilles¹  José Lm Do Nascimento²  Bodo Wanke¹ 

[1] ,Instituto de Ciências Biológicas

关键词: Cryptococcus neoformans;    Cryptococcus gattii;    cryptococcosis;    Belém;    Pará;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762009000400023

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are important agents of meningoencephalitis in humans in the city of Belém. This clinical data suggests that the region may be a highly endemic area for the pathogenic Cryptococcus species within the state of Pará (PA), Northern Brazil. Preliminary analysis of 11 environmental samples from the city of Belém showed two positive locations, including a hollow of a kassod tree (Senna siamea) colonized simultaneously by C. gattii molecular type VGII and C. neoformans molecular type VNI, and a birdcage in a commercial aviary positive for C. neoformans, molecular type VNI. This is the first evidence of an environmental occurrence of molecular types VNI and VGII in PA.

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