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Title: | Isolation of Cryptococcus species including C-neoformans from cloaca of pigeons | Authors: | Rosario, I. Hermoso De Mendoza, M. Déniz, S. Soro, G. Álamo, I. Acosta, B. |
Keywords: | Laurentii Fungemia Aids Patients Differentiation Uniguttulatus Infection, et al |
Issue Date: | 2005 | Publisher: | 0933-7407 | Journal: | Mycoses | Abstract: | Upper digestive tract of the pigeon (Columba livia) is well known as a reservoir for different species of Cryptococcus, but lower portions are not so frequently studied. In the present study, we tested on selective media a total of 331 pigeon cloacal swabs; Cryptococcus spp. were recovered from 26 (7.85%). Cryptococcus uniguttulatus was isolated from 11 samples (3.32%), C. laurentii from six (1.81%), C. neoformans var. neoformans from six (1.81%) and C. albidus from three of them (0.91%). The results show the importance of pigeon in the cryptococcosis epidemiology as reservoir and carrier for C. neoformans var. neoformans, but also for other Cryptococcus species of increasing clinical interest. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/49418 | ISSN: | 0933-7407 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2005.01153.x | Source: | Mycoses[ISSN 0933-7407],v. 48 (6), p. 421-424 |
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