Posts Tagged ‘cryptococcosis’
It’s not every day you get clued in on a story of possible mycological interest by visiting the Drudge Report (FYI, to balance things out, I also check The Huffington Post). But, there it was–Potentially deadly fungus spreading in US, Canada. A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the [...]
Tags: cryptococcosis, Cryptococcus gattii, fungal disease, medical mycology
In an unusual case of mycosis, a monkey at the Chattanooga Zoo in Tennessee has died after contracting an infection with the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. The case is all the more sad since the animal was a rare cottontop tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) born in captivity, only just last May. According to Endangered monkey dies [...]
Tags: animal mycoses, cottontop tamarin, cryptococcosis, Cryptococcus neoformans
