![]() ![]() One retrospective study in an 800-bed hospital over 12 years found an incidence of 0.56 patients per 100,000. Cryptococcuria is a rare clinical finding. Once inhaled, pulmonary infection can lead to hematogenous spread, most often to the central nervous system but occasionally to skin, bone, and rarely the prostate or bladder. The cryptococcal polysaccharide capsule is its main virulence factor, allowing it to evade host immunity and readily disseminate. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.Ĭryptococcus neoformans is a free living saprobic encapsulated yeast that is ubiquitous in the environment and typically causes infection in patients with immunocompromising conditions such as HIV, hematologic malignancy, or organ transplantation. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. ![]()
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