375. Cryptococcal Antigenemia in Advanced HIV Infection
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Intracranial Cryptococcal Infection in HIV Positive Patient
Cryptococcus neoformans is the most common fungal infection of the CNS. The majority of patients with cryptococcosis have preexisting immunodeficiency such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). CT and/or MRI of the brain only occasionally detects abnormalities specifically related to this infection. We report a case of MR appearance of central nervous system cryptococcosis in a 33-year-...
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Received 17 May 2012; Accepted 6 July 2012; Published 2 August 2012 Copyright: – 2012 Joob B and Wiwanitkit V; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the origi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2328-8957
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofz360.448