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Volume 22, Number 6—June 2016
Letter

Cryptococcus gattii VGIIb-like Variant in White-Tailed Deer, Nova Scotia, Canada

David P. Overy1Comments to Author , Scott McBurney1, Anne Muckle, Lorraine Lund, P. Jeffery Lewis, and Robert Strang
Author affiliations: Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (D.P. Overy, S. McBurney, A. Muckle, L. Lund, P.J. Lewis); Department of Health and Wellness, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (R. Strang)

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Tissue from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), showing microscopic lesions caused by a unique Cryptococcus gattii VGIIb variant strain most similar to that of the VGIIb genotype; etiology was confirmed by molecular sequencing. A) Photomicrograph of lung lesions with intralesional C. gattii (arrows indicate examples of individual yeast) in a mass (**) and in adjacent compressed alveolar spaces (*). Mucicarmine stain; original magnification ×10. B) Photomicrograph of a brainstem lesion wi

Figure. Tissue from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), showing microscopic lesions caused by a unique Cryptococcus gattii VGIIb-like variant strain most similar to that of the VGIIb genotype; etiology was confirmed by molecular sequencing. A) Photomicrograph of lung lesions with intralesional C. gattii (arrows indicate examples of individual yeast) in a mass (**) and in adjacent compressed alveolar spaces (*). Mucicarmine stain. Scale bar indicates 100μm. B) Photomicrograph of a brainstem lesion with intralesional C. gattii (arrows indicate examples of individual yeast) and an adjacent blood vessel with a perivascular infiltrate of inflammatory cells (*). Hematoxylin and eosin stain. Scale bar indicates 50μm.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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