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Application and evaluation of nucleic acid sequence-based amplification, PCR and cryptococcal antigen test for diagnosis of cryptococcosis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Cryptococcosis is a major opportunistic invasive mycosis in immunocompromised patients, but it is also increasingly seen in immunocompetent patients.
Yanping Wang, Mi Yang, Yun Xia, Jia Yan, Jiaqi Zou, Dawei Zhang   +5 more
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Mortality by cryptococcosis in Brazil from 2000 to 2012: A descriptive epidemiological study.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BackgroundCryptococcosis is a neglected and predominantly opportunistic mycosis that, in Brazil, poses an important public health problem, due to its late diagnosis and high lethality.MethodsThe present study analysed cryptococcosis mortality in Brazil ...
Emmanuel Alves Soares, Márcia Dos Santos Lazera, Bodo Wanke, Marcela de Faria Ferreira, Raquel Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira, Adeno Gonçalves Oliveira, Ziadir Francisco Coutinho   +6 more
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Crazy‐paving patterns as rare radiological manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis: a case report

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021
Background Crazy-paving patterns are rarely reported as radiological manifestations of pulmonary cryptococcosis. Case presentation Herein, we presented a very rare case of a crazy-paving pattern as a radiological manifestation of pulmonary cryptococcosis
He Yu, Kaige Wang, Dong Huang, Lu Wen, Ying Zhang, Ye Wang, Yongjiang Tang, Jiajia Dong, Zongan Liang   +8 more
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Concurrent Subcutaneous Candidal Abscesses and Pulmonary Cryptococcosis in a Patient with Diabetes Mellitus and a History of Corticosteroid Therapy [PDF]

, 2014
A 50-year-old man with a history of long-term corticosteroid treatment following adrenalectomy for Cushing's syndrome and uncontrolled diabetes mellitus was admitted for an examination of an abnormal thoracic shadow.
Miyazaki, Taiga, Yoshifumi Imamura, Koichi Izumikawa, Misuzu Tsukamoto, Yanagihara, Katsunori, Shigeru Kohno, Yoshitomo Morinaga, Katsunori Yanagihara, Motoi Takenaka, Tomoya Nishino, Kurihara, Shintaro, Kosai, Kosuke, Shigeki Nakamura, Yamada, Koichi, Kakeya, Hiroshi, Takahiro Takazono, Takayoshi Tashiro, Imamura, Yoshifumi, Kosuke Kosai, Obata, Yoko, Koichi Yamada, Takenaka, Motoi, Takazono, Takahiro, Nishino, Tomoya, Taiga Miyazaki, Kohno, Shigeru, Tsukamoto, Misuzu, Nakamura, Shigeki, Izumikawa, Koichi, Yusuke Narita, Hiroshi Kakeya, Narita, Yusuke, Shintaro Kurihara, Yoko Obata, Tashiro, Takayoshi, Morinaga, Yoshitomo   +35 more
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Successful management of cryptococcosis of the bilateral adrenal glands and liver by unilateral adrenalectomy with antifungal agents: a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2011
Background Cryptococcus species usually affect the central nervous system and lungs in immunocompromised hosts. Although the adrenal glands can be involved in disseminated cryptococcosis, primary adrenal insufficiency caused by the fungal infection is ...
Matsuda Yayoi, Kawate Hisaya, Okishige Yuka, Abe Ichiro, Adachi Masahiro, Ohnaka Keizo, Satoh Naoichi, Inokuchi Junichi, Tatsugami Katsunori, Naito Seiji, Nomura Masatoshi, Takayanagi Ryoichi   +11 more
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Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Presenting as Endobronchial Lesions in a Patient under Corticosteroid Treatment [PDF]

, 2007
We report a case of pulmonary cryptococcosis in an immunocompromised patient who had focal endobronchial lesions. When we first examined her, she complained of a productive cough that had lasted for two months. Seventeen months prior to this examination,
Yanagihara, Katsunori, Kakeya, Hiroshi, Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu, Kohno, Shigeru, Izumikawa, Kohichi, Hirakata, Yoichi, Inoue, Yuichi, Sawai, Toyomitsu   +7 more
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Progressive cutaneous Cryptococcosis complicated with meningitis in a myasthenia gravis patient on long-term immunosuppressive therapy – a case report

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Cryptococcosis is an opportunistic infection caused by the encapsulated yeast Cryptococcus neoformans and most remarkably manifests in HIV-infected individuals, especially in the settings of very low CD4 count. Development of cryptococcosis in
Nguyen Thi Cam Huong, Ahmed M. A. Altibi, Nguyen My Hoa, Le Anh Tuan, Samar Salman, Sara Morsy, Nguyen Thi Bich Lien, Nguyen Thanh Truong, Nguyen Thi Hoang Mai, Pham Thi Le Hoa, Nguyen Ba Thang, Van The Trung   +11 more
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A Non-HIV Specific ST5 Genotype of Cryptococcus neoformans-gattii Species Complex

Siriraj Medical Journal, 2015
Cryptococcosis is a basidiomycetous yeast infection caused by Cryptococcus neoformans-gattii species complex which comprises of two sibling species, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii.
Popchai Ngamskulrungroj
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Major role for amphotericin B-flucytosine combination in severe cryptococcosis. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: The Infectious Diseases Society of America published in 2000 practical guidelines for the management of cryptococcosis. However, treatment strategies have not been fully validated in the various clinical settings due to exclusion criteria ...
Bernede-Bauduin Claire, Olivier Lortholary, Didier Guillemot, Guillemot Didier, Lortholary Olivier, French Cryptococcosis Study Group, Claire Bernede-Bauduin, Françoise Dromer, Dromer Françoise   +8 more
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Outcomes of Central Nervous System Cryptococcosis Vary with Host Immune Function: Results from a Multi-Center, Prospective Study

, 2011
Background: Central nervous system (CNS) cryptococcosis is most commonly encountered among HIV-infected and other immunosuppressed hosts but is less well-characterized among non-immunosuppressed patients.
Nguyen, M. Hong; Husain, Shahid; Clancy, Cornelius J.; Peacock, James E.; Hung, Chien-Ching; Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P.; Morris, Arthur J.; Heath, Christopher H.; Wagener, Marilyn; Yu, Victor L., 洪健清   +1 more
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