Cryptococcusn.

1835 Rec. Gen. Sci. 2 62 The lowest state of these globules is well exhibited in the genus established by Kutzing, of Cryptococcus which is inferior to Protococcus.

1855 J. W. Griffith & A. Henfrey Micrographic Dict. (1856) 174/2 Cryptococceæ.—One of Kützing's families of Algæ, including his genera Cryptococcus, Ulvina..which appear to be forms..of Mildew Fungi.

1881 Lancet 28 May 870/1 Studying the life history of the cryptococcus, he found that it presented two distinct phases.

1905 Lancet 18 Feb. 436/2 He describes fully, with illustrations, the causal organism [of epizootic lymphangitis] (a cryptococcus).

1947 C. E. Skinner et al. Henrici's Molds, Yeasts, & Actinomycetes (ed. 2) ix. 286 Most medical mycologists use [the term] Cryptococcus, but nearly all industrial workers who have abandoned Torula use Torulopsis.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 22 July 167/2 Cryptococci are pathogenic fungi which..are common in nature, especially in bird droppings, a common source of human infection.

1988 R. Shilts Band played On ii. iv. 36 The problem..was not the presence of new Cryptococcus germs but of some weakness in the patients' immunity that let the disease take root.

2002 N. P. Money Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard ii. 25 When critical defenses are damaged in the immune-compromised patient, Cryptococcus travels from the lungs to the nervous system.