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Cryptococcosis

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Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that causes cryptococcosis. Cryptococcosis has changed from a relatively obscure fungal pathogen that infects immunocompetent patients to a leading cause of central nervous system infection in the world’s enlarging immunocompromised populations [1–4].

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  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Gerald L. Mandell MD (Chief) (Chief)

  2. Department of Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Diamond MD

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Perfect, J.R. (2000). Cryptococcosis. In: Mandell, G.L., Diamond, R.D. (eds) Atlas of Infectious Diseases. Current Medicine Group, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9313-0_6

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