Cryptococcus in Wildlife and Free-Living Mammals.

摘要: Cryptococcosis is typically a sporadic disease that affects broad range of animal species globally. Disease consequence infection with members the Cryptococcus neoformans or gattii complexes. Although cryptococcosis in many domestic animals has been relatively well-characterized, free-living wildlife are often neglected literature outside occasional case reports. This review summarizes clinical presentation, pathological findings and potential underlying causes various other animals, including terrestrial marine mammals. The evaluation available supports hypothesis anatomy (particularly respiratory tract), behavior environmental exposures play vital roles outcome host-pathogen-environment interactions resulting different scenarios. Key examples from koalas, which exhibit primarily C. complex presumably due to their exposure eucalypts, cetaceans, show predominantly pulmonary lesions unique anatomy. Understanding factors at each scenario powerful investigative tool, as may act sentinels.