Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease that affects vital organs. It is caused by the infection-containing spores of the fungi Cryptococcus complex. This fungus is primarily found in North America, Europe ...

A group of international mycology experts led by Professor Dr Oliver A. Cornely at the University of Cologne has jointly drafted a guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of cryptococcosis, which ...

A global guideline for the management of cryptococcosis, a fungal infection that can have serious health consequences, has been developed. A group of international mycology experts led by Professor Dr ...

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 ...

COUGH and chest pain are just two of the symptoms of a potentially deadly infection can be caused by breathing in airbourne fungi. A team of researchers have studied Cryptococcosis, a disease that ...

Patients with solid organ transplants are at risk of invasive cryptococcal infection because of long-term immunosuppressive therapy. There has been a shift in the epidemiology of invasive cryptococcal ...

A previously healthy 30-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-week history of dyspnea, dry cough and skin lesions. The patient has sex with men. He immigrated from Thailand to ...