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Javier Capilla1, Claudia M L Maffei, Karl V Clemons
1California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, USA.
Medical Mycology
|October 31, 2006
Abstract:
Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) var. grubii or Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans infection is usually associated with immunocompromised hosts, whereas Cryptococcusgattii more frequently causes disease in immunocompetent hosts. We examined the effects of immunodeficiency and glucocorticoid-induced immunosuppression on systemic murine infection induced by i.v. inoculation with these pathogens. SCID and immunocompetent BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice were infected with

