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Massimo Cogliati1, Roberta D'Amicis2, Alberto Zani2, Maria Teresa Montagna3, Giuseppina Caggiano3, Osvalda De Giglio3, Stella Balbino3, Antonella De Donno4, Francesca Serio4, Serdar Susever5, Cagri Ergin6, Aristea Velegraki7, Mohamed S Ellabib8, Simona Nardoni9, Cristina Macci10, Salvatore Oliveri11, Laura Trovato11, Ludovico Dipineto12, Volker Rickerts13, Ilka McCormick-Smith13, Sevim Akcaglar14, Okan Tore14, Emilija Mlinaric-Missoni15, Sebastien Bertout16, Michele Mallié16, Maria da Luz Martins17, Ana C F Vencà17, Maria L Vieira17, Ana C Sampaio18, Cheila Pereira18, Giuseppe Criseo19, Orazio Romeo19, Stéphane Ranque20, Mohammed H Y Al-Yasiri20, Meltem Kaya21, Nilgun Cerikcioglu21, Anna Marchese22, Luigi Vezzulli23, Macit Ilkit24, Marie Desnos-Ollivier25, Vincenzo Pasquale26, Maya Korem27, Itzhack Polacheck27, Antonio Scopa28, Wieland Meyer29, Kennio Ferreira-Paim29, Ferry Hagen30, Bart Theelen31, Teun Boekhout31, Shawn R Lockhart32, Kathrin Tintelnot13, Anna Maria Tortorano2, Françoise Dromer25, Ashok Varma33, Kyung J Kwon-Chung33, Joäo Inácio34, Beatriz Alonso34, Maria F Colom35.
Abstract
In order to elucidate the distribution of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii in the Mediterranean basin, an extensive environmental survey was carried out during 2012-2015. A total of 302 sites located in 12 countries were sampled, 6436 samples from 3765 trees were collected and 5% of trees were found to be colonized by cryptococcal yeasts. Cryptococcus neoformans was isolated from 177 trees and C. gattii from 13. Cryptococcus neoformans colonized 27% of Ceratonia, 10% of Olea, Platanus and Prunus trees and a lower percentage of other tree genera. The 13 C. gattii isolates were collected from five Eucalyptus, four Ceratonia, two Pinus and two Olea trees. Cryptococcus neoformans was distributed all around the Mediterranean basin, whereas C. gattii was isolated in Greece, Southern Italy and Spain, in agreement with previous findings from both clinical and environmental sources. Among C. neoformans isolates, VNI was the prevalent molecular type but VNII, VNIV and VNIII hybrid strains were also isolated. With the exception of a single VGIV isolate, all C. gattii isolates were VGI. The results confirmed the presence of both Cryptococcus species in the Mediterranean environment, and showed that both carob and olive trees represent an important niche for these yeasts. © FEMS 2016. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.Entities:
Keywords: C. gattii; C. neoformans; Cryptococcus; Europe; environment; epidemiology; molecular typing
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Year: 2016 PMID： 27188887 PMCID： PMC5975981 DOI： 10.1093/femsyr/fow045
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Yeast Res ISSN： 1567-1356 Impact factor: 2.796