Contributing to the first description of Cryptococcus gattii, an emergent pathogen in the Northern hemisphere, and its possible environmental sources in exotic/small mammals (ferrets) in the Iberian Peninsula in collaboration with Clínica Exòtics (Barcelona) and Universidad Miguel Hernández (Elche); this pathogen is of particular interest because the occurrence of its environmental form in different species of trees and its ability to cause disease in immunocompetent human beings. Morera N, Juan-Sallés C, et al: Cryptococcus gattii infection in a Spanish pet ferret (Mustela putorius furo) and asymptomatic carriage in ferrets and humans from its environment. Medical Mycology 49:779-84, 2011; Morera N, Hagen F, Juan-Sallés C, et al: Ferrets as sentinels of the presence of pathogenic Cryptococcus species in the Mediterranean environment. Mycopathologia, 178:145-51, 2014