Tourism and specific risk areas for Cryptococcus gattii, Vancouver Island, Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1781-1783

  Chambers, Catharine ^a,b   MacDougall, Laura ^a   Li, Min ^a   Galanis, Eleni ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII INFECTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TOURISM;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL;

EID: 55549120560     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1411.080532     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Casadevall A, Perfect JR. Cryptococcus neoformans: molecular pathogenesis and clinical management. Washington: American Society for Microbiology Press; 1998.
2. Stephen C, Lester S, Black W, Fyfe M, Raverty S. Multispecies outbreak of cryptococcosis on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Can Vet J. 2002;43:792-4.
3. Kidd SE, Chow Y, Mak S, Bach PJ, Chen H, Hingston AO, et al. Characterization of environmental sources of the human and animal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2007;73:1433-43. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01330-06
4. Kidd SE, Hagen F, Tscharke RL, Huynh M, Bartlett KH, Fyfe M, et al. A rare genotype of Cryptococcus gattii caused the cryptococcosis outbreak on Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004;101:17258-63. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402981101
5. MacDougall L, Kidd SE, Galanis E, Mak S, Leslie MJ, Cieslak PR, et al. Spread of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia, Canada, and detection in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007;13:42-50.
6. Duncan C, Stephen C, Lester S, Bartlett KH. Sub-clinical infection and asymptomatic carriage of Cryptococcus gattii in dogs and cats during an outbreak of cryptococcosis. Med Mycol. 2005;43:511-6. DOI: 10.1080/ 13693780500036019
7. Lindberg J, Hagen F, Laursen A, Stenderup J, Boekhout T. Cryptococcus gattii risk for tourists visiting Vancouver Island, Canada. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007;13:178-9.
8. MacDougall L, Fyfe M. Emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in a novel environment provides clues to its incubation period. J Clin Microbiol. 2006;44:1851-2. DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.5.1851-1852.2006
9. BC Centre for Disease Control. Cryptococcus gattii surveillance summary, British Columbia, 1999-2006. Vancouver (Canada): BC Centre for Disease Control; 2007 [cited 2008 Aug 14]. Available from http://www.bccdc.org/topic. php?item=109
10. Tourism BC. Regional Profile: Vancouver Island, Victoria, and the Gulf Islands. Victoria (Canada): Tourism BC Research Services; 2007 [cited 2008 Aug 14]. Available from http://www.tourismbc.com/special_reports.asp?id=2065
11. Askling HH, Nilsson J, Tegnell A, Janzon R, Ekdahl K. Malaria risk in travelers. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005;11:436-41.
12. Ekdahl K, Andersson Y. Regional risks and seasonality in travel-associated campylobacteriosis. BMC Infect Dis. 2004;4:54. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-4-54
13. Ekdahl K, de Jong B, Wollin R, Andersson Y. Travel-associated non-typhoidal salmonellosis: geographical and seasonal differences and serotype distribution. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2005;11:138-44. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691. 2004.01045.x
14. Ekdahl K, Andersson Y. The epidemiology of travel-associated shigellosis - regional risks, seasonality and serogroups. J Infect. 2005;51:222-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.02.002