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Cryptococcosis is a potentially fatal fungal infection that can affect the lungs, brain, skin, and other parts of the body. Symptoms of lung infection include cough, difficulty breathing, chest pain, and fever. Symptoms of brain infection include headache, fever, neck pain, nausea and vomiting, light sensitivity, and confusion or changes in behavior. Skin infection may appear as several fluid-filled nodules with dead tissue. Risk factors for cryptococcosis include a history of HIV/AIDS, weakened immune systems, and a history of serious bacterial infection.
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Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungus that lives in the environment throughout the world. People can become infected with C. neoformans after breathing in the microscopic fungus, although most people who are exposed to the fungus never get sick from it.
C. neoformans Infection | Fungal Diseases | CDC
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Cryptococcosis is a potentially fatal fungal infection of mainly the lungs, presenting as a pneumonia, and brain, where it appears as a meningitis. Cough, difficulty breathing, chest pain and fever are seen when the lungs are infected. When the brain is infected, symptoms include headache, fever, neck pain, nausea and vomiting, light sensitivity and confusion or changes in behavior. It can also affect other parts of the body including skin, where it may appear as several fluid-filled nodules with dead tissue.
Cryptococcosis - Wikipedia
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Cryptococcosis is an infectious disease with worldwide distribution and wide array of clinical presentations caused by pathogenic encapsulated yeasts in the genus Cryptococcus. Currently, there are 2 species of Cryptococcus…
Cryptococcosis - PMC - PubMed Central (PMC)
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Cryptococcosis is a disease caused by fungi from the genus Cryptococcus that infect humans and animals, usually by inhalation of the fungus. The majority of cryptococcosis infections are caused by C. neoformans and C. gattii, and the disease is spread through inhalation of dust contaminated with bird feces or plant material. Risk factors for cryptococcosis include a history of HIV/AIDS, a history of weakened immune systems, and a history of a history of a history of a history of a history of a history of a serious bacterial infection.
Cryptococcosis: Symptoms, Treatment, Diagnosis, Prevention & Causes
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Cryptococcus is the most common fungus that causes serious infection worldwide. Both types of fungi are found in soil. If you breathe the fungus in, it infects your lungs. The…
Cryptococcosis: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
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In people with HIV, cryptococcosis commonly presents as a subacute meningitis or meningoencephalitis with fever, malaise, and headache slowly developing over many weeks, with a median onset of 2 weeks…
Cryptococcosis | NIH - HIV.gov
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