AIDS Patient Death Caused by Novel Cryptococcus neoformans × C. gattii Hybrid

Abstract

Interspecies hybrids of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii have only recently been reported. We describe a novel C. neoformans × C. gattii hybrid strain (serotype AB) that was previously described as C. gattii and that caused a lethal infection in an AIDS patient from Canada.

Keywords

• Cryptococcus neoformans
• Cryptococcus gattii
• hybrids
• serotype AB
• HIV
• AIDS