First case of disseminated cryptococcosis in a Gorilla gorilla

Mycoses

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 664-671

  Mischnik, Alexander ^a   Stockklausner, Julia ^b   Hohneder, Nicole ^b   Jensen, Henrik E ^c   Zimmermann, Stefan ^a   Reuss, David E ^a   Rickerts, Volker ^d   Tintelnot, Kathrin ^d   Stockklausner, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Heidelberg Zoo   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus; Gorilla; Meningoencephalitis; Mucicarmine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFACLOR; CRYPTOCOCCAL ANTIGEN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

28S LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE; ANEMIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; COUGHING; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DETERIORATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LETHARGY; LUNG BIOPSY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RNA GENE; TREMOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FILOBASIDIELLA; GORILLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE DISEASES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; PRIMATE DISEASES;

EID: 84907953498     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12215     Document Type: Article

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