Cryptococcus gattii Infection Spreading Across Pacific Northwest with High Fatality Rate: Presented at IDSA

Doctor’s Guide -- VANCOUVER -- October 26, 2010 -- An emerging fungal infection has been spreading across the Pacific Northwest of North America over the past 10 years, and has penetrated as far south as Arizona, epidemiologists reported here at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).