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| Title |
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1101/cshperspect.a019760 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, James A. Fraser, Tamara L. Doering, Zhuo A. Wang, Guilhem Janbon, Alexander Idnurm, Yong-Sun Bahn |
| Abstract |
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the two etiologic agents of cryptococcosis. They belong to the phylum Basidiomycota and can be readily distinguished from other pathogenic yeasts such as Candida by the presence of a polysaccharide capsule, formation of melanin, and urease activity, which all function as virulence determinants. Infection proceeds via inhalation and subsequent dissemination to the central nervous system to cause meningoencephalitis. The most common risk for cryptococcosis caused by C. neoformans is AIDS, whereas infections caused by C. gattii are more often reported in immunocompetent patients with undefined risk than in the immunocompromised. There have been many chapters, reviews, and books written on C. neoformans. The topics we focus on in this article include species description, pathogenesis, life cycle, capsule, and stress response, which serve to highlight the specializations in virulence that have occurred in this unique encapsulated melanin-forming yeast that causes global deaths estimated at more than 600,000 annually. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 500 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 86 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 68 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 51 | 10% |
| Researcher | 49 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 26 | 5% |
| Other | 60 | 12% |
| Unknown | 163 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 83 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 69 | 14% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 65 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 54 | 11% |
| Chemistry | 11 | 2% |
| Other | 38 | 8% |
| Unknown | 183 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 January 2023.
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#2,485,738
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
#166
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#24,242
of 242,348 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
#4
of 23 outputs
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