TY - JOUR AU - Okamoto, Koh AU - Hatakeyama, Shuji AU - Itoyama, Satoru AU - Nukui, Yoko AU - Yoshino, Yusuke AU - Kitazawa, Takatoshi AU - Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi AU - Ikeda, Reiko AU - Sugita, Takashi AU - Koike, Kazuhiko T1 - Cryptococcus gattii Genotype VGIIa Infection in Man, Japan, 2007 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2010 VL - 16 IS - 7 SP - 1155 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Cryptococcus gattii KW - central nervous system infection KW - pulmonary cryptococcosis KW - genotype KW - multilocus sequence typing KW - parasites KW - Japan KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1607.100106 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/7/10-0106_article ER - End of Reference