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. 2004 Aug;42(8):3865-8.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3865-3868.2004.

Cryptococcus infection in tropical Australia

Adam Jenney  1 , Kishan Pandithage, Dale A Fisher, Bart J Currie
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Cryptococcus infection in tropical Australia

Adam Jenney et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Aug.

Abstract

Eighteen cases of disease caused by the saprophytic fungi Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus bacillisporus are described from the Northern Territory of Australia. The majority of infections were with Cryptococcus bacillisporus and in the rural Aboriginal population, often causing pulmonary mass lesions.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Macroscopic specimen of a well-circumscribed cryptococcoma in the left lower lobe of 39-year-old man (Table 1, case 12).
FIG. 2.
FIG. 2.
High-power view of a granuloma from the excised crytococcoma showing a giant cell containing cryptococci with a clear halo indicating the nonstaining capsule (hematoxylin and eosin).
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