{"id":9628,"date":"2013-09-11T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:30:54","slug":"cryptococcus-gattii-causing-deadly-fungal-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/2013\/09\/cryptococcus-gattii-causing-deadly-fungal-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptococcus gattii Causing New Deadly Fungal Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cryptococcus gattii<\/em> is a deadly fungal infection that has now been found in several states outside of the Pacific Northwest in a development that is perplexing to infectious disease physicians and public health officials.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the more common <em>Cryptococcus neoforman<\/em>s which infects mostly immunocompromised patients, <em>C. gattii<\/em>, while still very rare, can infect and kill the young and healthy, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/sites\/insidesurgery.com\/files.nbcnews.com\/health\/deadly-fungal-disease-detected-outside-pacific-northwest-8C11126084\">recent case<\/a> of a healthy 18 year old woman in Georgia. The fungus causes severe brain and lung infections.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Harris, MD, of the CDC comments in the article.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9634\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/2013\/09\/cryptococcus-gattii-causing-deadly-fungal-infection\/cryptococcus_gattii_02\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9634\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9634\" alt=\"Cryptococcus gattii\" src=\"http:\/\/insidesurgery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Cryptococcus_gattii_02.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unencapsulated (left) and encapsulated forms of C. gattii<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptococcus gattii is a deadly fungal infection that has now been found in several states outside of the Pacific Northwest in a development that is perplexing to infectious disease physicians and public health officials. 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