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ArticleMycopathologia2018

Case Series: Report of the First Two Human Indigenous Cases of Cryptococcus gattii Infection in Eastern Canada.

Jessica St-Pierre, Philippe J Dufresne, Alex Carignan, Émilie Lévesque, Francis Bernard, Jean Longtin, Louiselle LeBlanc

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Article in Mycopathologia, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Impact of climate change on emerging infectious diseases: Implications for Canada.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jessica St-PierreUniversité de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Philippe J DufresneLaboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.
Alex CarignanCentre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Émilie LévesqueUniversité de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Francis BernardDépartement de Biologie Médicale, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Université de Montréal, 5400 Boul. Gouin Ouest, Montreal, QC, H4J 1C5, Canada.
Jean LongtinLaboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada.
Louiselle LeBlancDépartement de Biologie Médicale, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Université de Montréal, 5400 Boul. Gouin Ouest, Montreal, QC, H4J 1C5, Canada. Louiselle.leblanc@umontreal.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4642-8865

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the two first cases of human C. gattii meningoencephalitis acquired on the Canadian east coast, from the province of Quebec. Unlike C. neoformans, C. gattii is not known to have an established ecological niche on the North American east coast. C. gattii has recently been responsible for major outbreaks in British Columbia, Canada, and in the American pacific northwest. However, no human cases acquired in other Canadian provinces have been reported to our knowledge. The source of acquisition remains unclear for both patients but since neither had traveled outside of the province of Quebec, we discuss the possibilities of environmental and animal-associated acquisition, as well as the possible established endemicity in new areas. These cases add to the growing reported human and animal cases in areas previously not thought to be endemic for C. gattii.

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Cryptococcus gattiiFemaleHeadHumansLungMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMeningitis, CryptococcalMeningoencephalitisQuebecRadiography, ThoracicTomography, X-Ray ComputedYoung AdultCryptococcus gattiiHumanMeningoencephalitisQuebec

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PMID29086143

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