cryptococcosisn.
/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)kɒˈkəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˌkrɪptəkɑˈkoʊsəs/ Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Disease caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, most commonly affecting humans and other mammals and characterized by granulomatous inflammation of the meninges or lungs, and often occurring as an opportunistic infection in immunosuppressed individuals. Also called torulosis.The disease referred to in quot. 1916 is epizootic lymphangitis, an equine form of histoplasmosis, thought at the time to be caused by a cryptococcus.
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Madura foot1855
mycetoma1863
otomycosis1877
Sclerotium1885
blastomycosis1900
oidiomycosis1901
sporotrichosis1908
rhinosporidiosis1910
cryptococcosis1916
maduromycosis1916
mucormycosis1918
moniliasis1920
coccidioidomycosis1937
Candida1939
candidiasis1954
phycomycosis1959
thrush1967
1916 Trop. Vet. Bull. 4 110 Osseous cryptococcosis was found in 17 of 159 cases treated in the course of a year.
1935 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 57 255 Cryptococci are also found associated with infections and at least one member of the group is known to cause an important mycotic infection, namely, the cryptococcosis of Busse and Buschke.
1962 New Scientist 12 Apr. 46/3 A fungus disease called cryptococcosis, which usually attacks the [koala] bears' central nervous system.
1988 R. Shilts Band played On ii. iv. 36 It was about that time that Belgian doctors in Zaire began reporting an upsurge in cases of cryptococcosis at Kinshasa's Memo Yemo General Hospital.
2008 C. W. Dewey Pract. Guide Canine & Feline Neurol. (ed. 2) v. 176 American Cocker Spaniels and Siamese cats appear to be predisposed to developing CNS cryptococcosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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