University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Jul;16(7):1155-7. doi: 10.3201/eid1607.100106.
We report a patient in Japan infected with Cryptococcus gattii genotype VGIIa who had no recent history of travel to disease-endemic areas. This strain was identical to the Vancouver Island outbreak strain R265. Our results suggest that this virulent strain has spread to regions outside North America.
我们报告了一例在日本感染了格特隐球菌基因型 VGIIa 的患者,该患者近期没有前往疾病流行地区的旅行史。该菌株与温哥华岛暴发菌株 R265 完全相同。我们的研究结果表明,这种毒力较强的菌株已传播到北美以外的地区。