Kriptokokus: Perbedaan antara revisi

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'''Kriptokokus''' (''Cryptococcus'') adalah suatu [[genus]] [[fungi]] patogen yang terenkapsulasi. Kriptokokus tumbuh di biakan sebagai [[khamir]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Parker|first=Sybil, P|date=1984|title=McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Biology|publisher=McGraw-Hill Company|url-status=live}}</ref>. Bentuk sempurna (seksual) atau [[teleomorph]] disebut '''Filobasidiella''', tetapi bentuk tidak sempurna (aseksual) atau [[anamorph]] disebut '''Cryptococcus'''. Nama Cryptococcus tidak benar ketika digunakan pada konteks medis karena bentuk tidak efektif adalah bentuk tidak sempurna. ''[[Cryptococcus neoformans]]'' adalah spesies yang paling penting secara medis. ''Cryoptococcus neoformans'' diketahui menyebabkan beberapa bentuk [[meningitis]] dan meningo-ensefalitis pada orang yang terinfeksi [[HIV]] dan [[AIDS]]. Terdapat sekitar 37 spesies ''Cryptococcus''.

== Referensi ==

* Cheng MF, Chiou CC, Liu YC, Wang HZ, Hsieh KS (2001) ''Cryptococcus laurentii'' fungemia in a premature neonate. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 39(4):1608-11. - a good review of ''C. laurentii'' cases till year 2000.

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%28%28%22cryptococcus%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20%28%22cryptococcosis%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22cryptococcosis%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20cryptococcus%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20albidus%5BAll%20Fields%5D%20AND%20%28%22infection%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20%28%22communicable%20diseases%22%5BTIAB%5D%20NOT%20Medline%5BSB%5D%29%20OR%20%22communicable%20diseases%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20infection%5BText%20Word%5D%29%29%20AND%20%22humans%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D Results from a PubMed Search on terms: "Cryptococcus albidus Infection"] - list of references for ''C. albidus'' clinical infections. Click on the hyperlink to go to the *[http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed PubMed] Search page.

* Ross A, Taylor IE (1981) Extracellular glycoprotein from virulent and avirulent Cryptococcus species. Infection and Immunity. 31(3):911-8

* Casadevall A and Perfect JR (1998) Cryptococcus neoformans. American Society for Microbiolgy, ASM Press, Washington DC, 1st edition.