Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in Man, Japan, 2007

Abstract

We report a patient in Japan infected with Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa who had no recent history of travel to disease-endemic areas. This strain was identical to the Vancouver Island outbreak strain R265. Our results suggest that this virulent strain has spread to regions outside North America.

Keywords

• Cryptococcus gattii
• central nervous system infection
• pulmonary cryptococcosis
• genotype
• multilocus sequence typing
• parasites