Cryptococcus gattii infection in an immunocompetent host in Greece
Marina Andreou1, Massimo Cogliati2, Fevronia Kolonitsiou3
1Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Medical Mycology Case Reports
|December 24, 2019
Abstract:
We report a case of a 31-year-old otherwise healthy female with pulmonary cryptococcoma along with cryptococcal meningitis due to Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGI, in Greece. Combined antifungal treatment and surgical excision of pulmonary cryptococcoma yielded a good response.


