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Mortality due to systemic mycoses as a primary cause of death or in association with AIDS in Brazil: a review from 1996 to 2006 [PDF]

, 2009
Deaths caused by systemic mycoses such as paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, candidiasis, aspergillosis, coccidioidomycosis and zygomycosis amounted to 3,583 between 1996-2006 in Brazil. When analysed as the underlying cause of death,
LAURENTI, Ruy, PRADO, Marli, SILVA, Marcelo Barbosa da, TABORDA, Carlos P, TRAVASSOS, Luiz R   +4 more
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Tuberculosis/cryptococcosis co-infection in China between 1965 and 2016

Emerging Microbes &Infections, 2017
Cases of tuberculosis/cryptococcosis co-infection are rapidly increasing in China. However, most studies addressing this co-infection have been published in Chinese journals, and this publication strategy has obscured this disease trend for scientists in
W. Fang, Lei Zhang, Jia Liu, D. Denning, F. Hagen, Weiwei Jiang, Nan Hong, S. Deng, Xia Lei, D. Deng, W. Liao, Jianping Xu, T. Boekhout, Min Chen, W. Pan   +14 more
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The relationship between lung CT features and serum cryptococcal antigen titers in localized pulmonary cryptococcosis patients. [PDF]

BMC Pulm Med
Background To explore the associations of computed tomography (CT) image features with the serum cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) titers measured by the lateral flow assay (LFA) in localized pulmonary cryptococcosis patients.
Dai C, Bai D, Lin C, Li KY, Zhu W, Lin J, Lu F, Chen Q, Luo W, Zhu B, Lin Y.   +10 more
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The epidemiology of cryptococcosis and the characterization of Cryptococcus neoformans isolated in a Brazilian University Hospital

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2017
Cryptococcosis, a systemic disease caused by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans/ Cryptococcus gattii is more severe in immunocompromised individuals.
Paula Augusta Dias Fogaça de Aguiar, R. Pedroso, A. S. Borges, T. A. Moreira, Lúcio Borges de Araújo, D. V. D. B. Röder   +5 more
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Swollen limbs and bone pain : a case report [PDF]

, 2005
A 50 year old man presented with peripheral oedema, abdominal distension and a pulmonary opacity on CXR. He subsequently perforated his sigmoid colon as a complication of diverticulitis with pericolic abscess. After colectomy his postoperative period was
Cacciottolo, Joseph M., Debono, Miguel, Sammut, David   +2 more
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End-stage liver disease Is a strong predictor of early mortality in cryptococcosis [PDF]

, 2015
Background. Cryptococcosis in the setting of end-stage liver disease (ESLD) has been associated with high mortality. We sought to compare the outcome of cryptococcal disease in patients with ESLD to that of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive ...
Powderly, William G, Raval, Krunal, Spec, Andrej   +2 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, the etiologic agents of cryptococcosis.

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, 2014
Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii are the two etiologic agents of cryptococcosis. They belong to the phylum Basidiomycota and can be readily distinguished from other pathogenic yeasts such as Candida by the presence of a polysaccharide ...
K. Kwon-Chung, J. Fraser, T. Doering, Zhou Wang, G. Janbon, A. Idnurm, Yong-Sun Bahn   +6 more
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Cryptococcosis in wait-listed liver transplant candidates: Prevalence, manifestations, and risk factors

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
Background: Liver cirrhosis compromises immunity against cryptococcosis, and liver transplant recipients tend to develop the disease earlier after transplantation, possibly due to unrecognized pretransplant infection.
Wan-Ting Tsai, Aristine Cheng, Yu-Chung Chuang, Cheng-Maw Ho, Yao-Ming Wu, Ming-Chih Ho, Hsin-Yun Sun, Ray-Hung Hu, Yee-Chun Chen   +8 more
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Chronic disseminated cryptococcosis without meningeal involvement in a severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected patient successfully treated with fluconazole

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2022
A 43-year-old female with advanced HIV infection presented with two chronic skin lesions. Cutaneous cryptococcosis was confirmed and pulmonary cryptococcosis was suspected.
Tatiane da Silveira Yonekura, Soraya Devi Macedo, Fernanda Gonçalves Moya, José Ernesto Vidal   +3 more
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Further Studies on Acquired Resistance to Murine Cryptococcosis: Enhancing Effect of Bordetella Pertussis [PDF]

, 1966
Irving Abrahams
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