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Treatment options for cryptococcosis are limited and and there are no licensed vaccines clinically available to treat or prevent cryptococcosis. Our study utilizes an integrated bioinformatics approaches to develop a polyvalent multiepitope subunit vaccine focusing on the key virulent proteins Heat shock transcription factor and Chaperone DnaK of both C. neoformans and C. gatti. Then in silico analysis was done to predict highly antigenic epitopes by assessing antigenicity, transmembrane topology screening, allergenecity, toxicity, and molecular docking approaches. Following this analysis, we designed two vaccine constructs integrating a compatible adjuvant and suitable linkers. These constructs exhibited notable characteristics including high antigenicity, non-toxicity, solubility, stability, and compatibility with Toll-like receptors (TLRs). The interaction between both vaccine constructs and TLR2, TLR3, and TLR9 was assessed through molecular docking analysis. 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