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First isolated in fermenting peach juice, and identified as a human pathogen in 1894 in a patient with bone lesions, this environmental pathogen has now found niches in soil, trees, birds, and domestic pets. Cryptococcosis is well recognized as an opportunistic infection and was first noted to be associated with reticuloendothelial cancers in the 1950s. Since then, advances in transplant immunology, medical science and surgical techniques have led to increasing numbers of solid organ transplantations (SOT) and hematological stem cell transplantations being performed, and the use of biological immunotherapeutics in increasingly high-risk and older individuals, have contributed to the further rise in cryptococcosis. Globally, however, the major driver for revivification of cryptococcosis is undoubtedly the HIV epidemic, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where access to care and antiretroviral therapy remains limited and advanced immunodeficiency, poverty and malnutrition remains the norm. As a zoonotic disease, environmental outbreaks of both human and animal cryptococcosis have been reported, possibly driven by climate change. This is best exemplified by the resurgence of C. gattii infection in Vancouver Island, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest of the United States since 1999. Here we describe how the colliding epidemics of HIV, transplantation and immunologics, climate change and migration have contributed to the rise of cryptococcosis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jof2010001","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,23]],"date-time":"2015-12-23T07:10:20Z","timestamp":1450854620000},"page":"1","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Colliding Epidemics and the Rise of Cryptococcosis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Christina","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital, Monash University, Melbourne 3181, Australia"},{"name":"HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sharon","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, Sydney 2145, Australia"},{"name":"Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, ICPMR\u2014Pathology West, Westmead Hospital, Sydney 2145, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Casadevall, A., and Perfect, J.R. 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