Dr. Chris Mody at the University of Calgary has found that two types of cells, called cytotoxic lymphocytes, are able to kill cryptococcus. |
However, in our case a skin biopsy was taken to exclude cryptococcus and other opportunistic infections. |
The British doctors knew cryptococcus, but they had never seen it cause that kind of rash, Dr. Lucas said. |
Doctors have recently uncovered another worrying development: outbreaks of fungal infections – mainly cryptococcus – that have appeared in previously healthy people. |
Dr. Levitz then turned the droppings over to Dr. Arturo Casadevall, an expert in growing cryptococcus from bird excreta and in molecular typing. |
It was the cryptococcus fungus, one of myriad opportunistic infections that can blossom when H. I. V. severely damages the immune system. |