TABLE 2.
Koalas (n = 14), ordered by identification number, at three co-owned captive facilities in the Cairns region of Queensland, Australia, that tested positive for Cryptococcus gattii species complex nasal colonization on at least one of two time points
| Koala number | 2015 |
2017 |
Antigenemia (titer)c | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parka | Nasal colonizationb (molecular type) | Parka | Nasal colonizationb (molecular type) | ||
| LS40 | 1 | + (VGIIb) | 1 | NTd | + (1:8) |
| LS49 | 2 | +++ (VGI) | 3 | +++ (VGI) | +e |
| LS55 | 2 | ++ (VGIIb) | 3 | NT | + (1:512) |
| LS56 | 2 | ++ (VGIIb) | 3 | +++ (VGI, VGIIb) | + (1:8) |
| LS67 | 3 | +++ (VGI) | 3 | NT | − |
| LS69 | 3 | +++ (VGI) | 3 | NT | + (1:8) |
| LS73 | 3 | + (VGI) | 3 | − | − |
| LS75 | 3 | + (VGI) | 3 | NT | − |
| LS77 | 3 | ++f | 3 | +++ (VGI) | + (1:4) |
| LS291 | 2 | − | 1 | +f | − |
| LS292 | 2 | − | 1 | +++ (VGI) | − |
| LS298 | 2 | − | 1 | + (VGIIb) | − |
| LS307 | 2 | − | 3 | +++ (VGIIb) | +e |
| LS311 | 2 | − | 3 | +++ (VGI, VGIIb) | − |
Park 1 is located at 16°39′47.1′′S 145°33′51.9′′E, park 2 at 16°45′28.9′′S 145°39′46.4′′E, and park 3 at 16°49'′07.9′′S 145°37′58.3′′E (see Fig. 1).
+, low degree of cryptococcal growth (1 to 10 colonies); ++, moderate (11 to 100 colonies); +++, heavy (>100 colonies).
Antigenemia results reflect if these koalas tested positive (+) at any time between 2014 and 2018 and the highest recorded latex agglutination cryptococcal antigen test titer.
NT, not tested.
Lateral flow immunoassay only.
No isolate available.