This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Clinical outcomes were reviewed for 4 patients with Cryptococcus gattii central nervous system infection who received dexamethasone for the ...

Ultimately, the goal is to find ways to stop deadly disease caused by Cryptococcus neoformans from developing in humans and animals. But until that time, finding new and better ways to treat already ...

In what is being described as 'The Teddy Roosevelt effect,' a deadly fungus in the Pacific Northwest may have arrived from Brazil via the Panama Canal, according to a new study. Cryptococcus gattii -- ...

Researchers identified large populations of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii — two fungi that cause substantial morbidity and mortality among patients with HIV — on trees in a public park and ...

Epidemiologists have found evidence of C. gattii in the soil and trees of coastal areas of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, as well as in the shore waters -- infections by the fungus have ...

Scientists have found that the impact of human activity on land has exacerbated the spread of Cryptococcus gattii, threatening the lives of marine mammals and humans. In the early 2000s, hundreds of ...

In the early 2000s, a fungus infected hundreds of animals and people in British Columbia and Washington State. Scientists found that the disease also killed porpoises and dolphins in the Salish ...

On March 27, 1964, Alaska’s Prince William Sound region was hit by a 9.2-magnitude earthquake, the strongest one ever recorded in North America. Around 139 people died, largely due to the series of ...

The great Alaska earthquake lasted four minutes and 38 seconds when it struck on March 27, 1964. The outbreak it may have seeded wouldn’t strike for another 35 years. One of the most surprising and ...

From the Detroit Receiving Hospital and the departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine. Aided by a grant (1 T1 AI 261–01) from the National ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Jan. 17, 2018 -- In what is being described as "The Teddy Roosevelt effect," a deadly fungus in the Pacific Northwest may have arrived from Brazil via the Panama Canal, according ...