| Autor: |
Rozenbaum, Ronaldo, Gonçalves, Adrelirio José Rios, Wanke, Bodo, Caiuby, Maria Julieta, Clemente, Hamilton, Lazera, Marcia dos Santos, Monteiro, Paulo Cesar Fialho, Londero, Alberto Thomaz |
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Mycopathologia; September 1992, Vol. 119 Issue: 3 p133-136, 4p |
| Abstrakt: |
The study of the clinical isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from 83 Brazilian patients with disseminated cryptococcosis showed that 75 were C. neoformans var. neoformans and 8 were var. gattii. Twenty-seven isolates were serotyped; all 19 var. neoformans were serotype A and all 8 var. gattii were serotype B. The correlation of the varieties of C. neoformans with the presence or not of hosts predisposing conditions to the mycosis showed that: (1) cryptococcosis caused by gattii variety occurred in 7 (58.3%) of the 12 nonimmunosuppressed patients, and (2) cryptococcosis caused by neoformans variety occurred in 65 (98.5%) of the 66 AIDS patients and in all 5 patients with other immunosuppressive conditions. The comparison of the distribution of the gattii and neoformans varieties between the nonimmunosup-pressed and immunosuppressed patients showed a significant statistical difference (p < 0.01). |
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