Overview: Cryptococcosis in the patient with AIDS

✍ Scribed by Alan M. Sugar

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 353 KB
• Volume: 114
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00437205

✦ Synopsis

Cryptococcosis is currently the most common life threatening mycoses found in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Extrapulmonary involvement is most frequently seen, especially in the central nervous system and skin. Clinical findings are non-specific, even in patients with meningitis. Threshold for diagnosis of this infection should be low, with serum cryptococcal antigens, blood, urine and sputum cultures for Cryptococcus neoformans performed in febrile AIDS patients. Lumbar puncture