disseminated cryptococcosis and active pulmonary tuberculosis co-infection in an otherwise healthy adult
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Disseminated cryptococcosis and active pulmonary tuberculosis co-infection in an otherwise healthy adult
Co-infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and Cryptococcus is very rare in immunocompetent hosts,1,2 and it is even more infrequent that the opportunistic yeast becomes disseminated in the presence of normal immune system and negative HIV test.3 We present an extremely uncommon case of severe fatal pulmonary and meningeal cryptococcosis along with fungemia associated with active pulmon...
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iranian journal of neurologyجلد ۱۴، شماره ۳، صفحات ۱۷۴-۱۷۶
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