Cryptococcal meningitis - a neglected killer

Cryptococcal meningitis: A neglected NTD?

1 Centre for Global Health, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s, University of London, London, United Kingdom, 2 Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 3 Medecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Centre for Healthc...

Cryptococcal Meningitis

Virulence probably plays a relatively small role in the outcome of this infection: the crucial factor is the immune status of the host. The most serious infections usually develop, in fact, in patients with defective cell-mediated immunity, for example those with AIDS, organ transplantation, reticuloendothelial malignancy, corticosteroid treatment and sarcoidosis, but not in subjects with neutr...

Cryptococcal meningitis

© 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd the second most common cause of death in HIV infection after tuberculosis (French et al. 2002). Moreover, despite the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), it continues to pose diffi cult management questions in the industrialized world. Questions remain for physicians regarding the optimal combination of antifungal agents, duration of tre...

A case of cryptococcal meningitis.

Cryptococcal Meningitis in a Horse