Background. Cryptococcosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (C-IRIS) may be driven by aberrant T-cell responses against cryptococci. We investigated this in human ...

Cryptococcosis is a condition that is caused by infection with a fungus from the Cryptococcus family. There are over 30 types of this fungus but there are two main species that are responsible for ...

Human-to-human transmission of cryptococcosis is very rare. 1–3 An 80-year-old man (Patient A) was hospitalized because of pulmonary squamous-cell carcinoma. He received mechanical ventilation and was ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 140, No. 4 (Oct., 1979), pp. 546-552 (7 pages) Congenitally athymic (nude) BALB/c mice, which are homozygous for the nu gene, are extremely susceptible to ...

The encapsulated fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is the most common cause of fungal meningitis, with the highest rate of cryptococcosis found in AIDS patients. Despite antifungal treatment, ...