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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2004, p. 3865-3868, Vol. 42, No. 8
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3865-3868.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cryptococcus Infection in Tropical Australia

Adam Jenney,1,2* Kishan Pandithage,1 Dale A. Fisher,1 and Bart J. Currie1,3

Infectious Diseases Unit, Northern Territory, Clinical School, Flinders University, Royal Darwin Hospital,1 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory 0811,3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia2

Received 27 June 2003/ Returned for modification 16 December 2003/ Accepted 28 March 2004

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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. Phone: 61-3-8344 9918. Fax: 61-3-9347 1540. E-mail: a.jenney{at}pgrad.unimelb.edu.au.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2004, p. 3865-3868, Vol. 42, No. 8
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3865-3868.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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