We thank Beatrice Despres for her technical support in the operation and maintenance of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for sample analysis.We also thank Bob Petri and Donald Sam for their ongoing support of the scanning wildlife health surveillance program in Atlantic Canada and encouragement of Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources field staff to take the time and make the effort to submit diagnostic specimens from the whitetailed deer, enabling a confirmatory diagnosis for this index case of cryptococcosis in Atlantic Canada.The cost of the diagnostic testing for this case was covered by the scanning wildlife health surveillance program of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative.
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