====== Cryptococcus neoformans ======

[[Cryptococcus]] neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that can live in both plants and animals. Its teleomorph is Filobasidiella neoformans, a filamentous fungus belonging to the class Tremellomycetes. It is often found in pigeon excrement.


===== Diagnosis =====

see [[Cryptococcus Diagnosis]].


===== Complications =====
Has been reported in only nine cases of [[shunt infection]].

see [[Cryptococcus neoformans ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection]]

The timing from shunt placement to symptom onset varies widely from 10 days to 15 months. Viereck et al., present a patient who developed a cryptococcal infection of his VP shunt more than two decades following shunt placement
((Viereck MJ, Chalouhi N, Krieger DI, Judy KD. Cryptococcal ventriculoperitoneal
shunt infection. J Clin Neurosci. 2014 Sep 11. pii: S0967-5868(14)00498-6. doi:
10.1016/j.jocn.2014.08.001. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25220283.)).