Fig. 1. : distribution of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii identified at molecular type level (n = 3486), recovered from clinical, environmentala or veterinary sources in Latin America. Molecular data have been combined from studies reported in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Table III). Data from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Panama about the molecular typing of cryptococcal strains has not been reported. a: C. neoformans has been mostly recovered from avian droppings, decaying organic matter, and soil (Casali et al. 2003, Ribeiro et al. 2006, Lugarini et al. 2008, Ribeiro and Ngamskulrungroj 2008, Andrade-Silva et al. 2010, Illnait-Zaragozi et al. 2010a, Souza et al. 2010, Ferreira-Paim et al. 2011, Canónico-González et al. 2013, Castro e Silva et al. 2016). C. gattii is associated with several tree species (Escandón et al. 2006, Trilles et al. 2008, Costa et al. 2009, Refojo et al. 2009, Escandón et al. 2010, Firacative et al. 2011, Mazza et al. 2013, Anzai et al. 2014, Cattana et al. 2014, Brito-Santos et al. 2015, Vélez and Escandón 2017).