AFLP	amplified fragment length polymorphism
CI	confidence interval
CNS	central nervous system
CrAg	cryptococcal antigen
CSF	cerebrospinal fluid
FeLV	feline leukaemia virus
FIV	feline immunodeficiency virus
IQR	interquartile range
MALDI-TOF MS	Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionisation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
MLST	multilocus sequence typing
NUTS	Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
p	p-value
PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
SD	standard deviation
U	Mann–Whitney U statistic
VG	Cryptococcus gattii molecular type
VN	Cryptococcus neoformans molecular type