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Case Reports
. 2010 Jul;16(7):1155-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1607.100106.

Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa infection in man, Japan, 2007

Koh Okamoto  1 , Shuji Hatakeyama, Satoru Itoyama, Yoko Nukui, Yusuke Yoshino, Takatoshi Kitazawa, Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi, Reiko Ikeda, Takashi Sugita, Kazuhiko Koike
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Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa infection in man, Japan, 2007

Koh Okamoto et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Jul.

Abstract

We report a patient in Japan infected with Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa who had no recent history of travel to disease-endemic areas. This strain was identical to the Vancouver Island outbreak strain R265. Our results suggest that this virulent strain has spread to regions outside North America.

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Postcontrast T1-weighted magnetic resononance image of the brain of a 44-year-old man with cerebral cryptococomma in Japan, 2007, showing a rim-enhancing lobulated mass (lower right) with surrounding edema in the left occipital lobe.
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