@article{a734eceac5dc4326b9291943150ddecb,
title = "Successful treatment of Cryptococcus gattii neurocryptococcosis in a 5-year-old immunocompetent child from the French Guiana Amazon region",
abstract = "Compared to the incidence in adults, cryptococcosis is rare among children. We report a case of neurocryptococcosis due to Cryptococcus gattii in a five-year-old girl without identified risk factors living in French Guiana. Neurological surgery in combination with long-term antifungal treatment with amphotericin B and 5-flucytosine successfully resolved the cryptococcal infection. Subsequent molecular characterization of the Cryptococcus isolate revealed that the infection was caused by a C. gattii genotype AFLP6B/VGIIb strain.",
keywords = "Central Nervous System Fungal Infections/therapy, Child, Preschool, Cryptococcosis/therapy, Cryptococcus gattii, Female, French Guiana, Humans, Remission Induction",
author = "Anne Debourgogne and Ferry Hagen and Narcisse Elenga and Laurence Long and Denis Blanchet and Vincent Veron and Olivier Lortholary and Bernard Carme and Christine Aznar",
note = "Copyright {\textcopyright} 2011 Revista Iberoamericana de Micolog{\'i}a. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.",
year = "2012",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.riam.2012.01.008",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "210--3",
journal = "Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia",
issn = "1130-1406",
publisher = "Asociacion Espanola de Micologia",
number = "4",
}