Fungus
cryptococcus gattii
Subclass of:
Cryptococcus
Definitions related to cryptococcus gattii:
  • A species of the fungus CRYPTOCOCCUS. Its teleomorph is Filobasidiella bacillispora.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • An encapsulated yeast in the phylum Basidiomycota. This species is globose to ovoid shaped, urease-positive, pseudohyphae- and nitrate-negative, does not ferment sugars, and assimilates glucose, maltose, sucrose, galactose, trehalose, raffinose, inositol, cellobiose, rhamnose, arabinose, melezitose and xylose. C. gattii is a human opportunistic pathogen and causes pulmonary cryptococcosis, basal meningitis and cerebral cryptococcomas in immunocompromised hosts. It is also associated with skin, soft tissue, lymph node, bone, and joint infections.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any fungal organism that can be assigned to the species Cryptococcus gattii.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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