TABLE V. Findings from recent Latin American environmental studies searching for the niche of Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii .

Country	Sample		Species recovered		Studies		Reference
	Bird excreta	Tree detritus	C. neoformans	C. gattii	Phenotypic	Molecular
Argentina		X	X	X	X	VNI, VGI	Refojo et al. (2009)
	X		X		X		Álvarez et al. (2010)
		X		X		VGI, VGIII	Mazza et al. (2013)
		X	X	X		VNI, VGI	Cattana et al. (2014)
Brazil		X	X	X	X	VNI, VGII	Costa et al. (2009)
	X		X		X	VNI, VNII, MATa	Ferreira-Paim et al. (2011)
	X	X	X		X	VNI, VNII	Andrade-Silva et al. (2012)
	X		X		X		Takahara et al. (2013)
			X	X	AS		Andrade-Silva et al. (2013)
	X		X	X	AS		Teodoro et al. (2013)
		X		X	X	VGII	Anzai et al. (2014)
		X		X	X	VGII	Brito-Santos et al. (2015)
		X	X		X	VNI, MATa	Castro e Silva et al. (2016)
	X	X	X	X	AS	VNI, VGII	Alves et al. (2016)
Chile	X		X		AS		González-Hein et al. (2010)
		X	X	X			Toro-Zúñiga et al. (2015)
Colombia	X	X	X	X	X	VGIII	Escandón et al. 2005
				X	X	VGIII	Escandón et al. (2010)
		X		X	X	VNI, B, VGI, VGIII	Firacative et al. (2011)
	X	X	X	X	X	VNI, VGII, VGIII	Mak et al. (2015)
		X	X		X	VNI	Noguera et al. (2015)
		X	X	X	X	VNI, VGIII	Vélez and Escandón (2017)
Cuba	X		X			Satellites	Illnait-Zaragozi et al. (2010a)
		X	Cryptococcus spp.				Illnait-Zaragozi et al. (2012)
Mexico	X		X	X		X	Canónico-Gonzáles et al. (2013)

AS: antifungal susceptibility.