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Disseminated cryptococcosis with cutaneous involvement in an immunocompetent patient [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016
Cryptococcosis is a fungal infection of opportunistic behavior that is unusual in immunocompetent patients. We report a rare case of disseminated cryptococcosis with cutaneous involvement in an immunocompetent individual.
Gabriely Lessa Sacht, Alexandre Moretti de Lima, Yuri Chiarelli Perdomo, Rafaela Suguimoto Boigues, Luiz Carlos Takita, Günter Hans Filho   +5 more
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Incidence of WHO stage 3 and 4 conditions following initiation of Anti-Retroviral Therapy in resource limited settings [PDF]

, 2012
To determine the incidence of WHO clinical stage 3 and 4 conditions during early anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in resource limited settings (RLS)
A d’Arminio Monforte, A Miranda, Andrea J. Curtis, AS Walker, B Castelnuovo, B Ledergerber, Catherine S. Marshall, CE Gonzalez, Daniel P. O’Brien, DJ Sloan, DR Hoover, Esther C. Casas, J Abadi, J Mermin, Jane Greig, JE Golub, JE Kaplan, JF Etard, Julian H. Elliot, K Buchacz, Leslie Shanks, M-L Newell, Marcio Silveria Da Fonseca, NJ Ives, Philipp Du Cros, R Zachariah, SD Lawn, Sten H. Vermund, Tim Spelman, VO Kasprowicz, W Manosuthi   +30 more
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Postrenal transplant disseminated cryptococcosis presenting as a syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion - A case report

Indian Journal of Transplantation, 2022
Cryptococcosis is the most common invasive fungal infection to involve the central nervous system in the posttransplant period. Cryptococcal meningitis, which constitutes disseminated cryptococcosis, can present with nonspecific signs and symptoms ...
Sandhya Suresh, Abhijit Konnur, Sishir Gang   +2 more
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Cryptococcosis with bird's eye manifestation: A case report

Lung India, 2018
Cryptococcosis is a menacing opportunistic infection most commonly affecting immunocompromised individuals. Its occurrence in immunocompetant individuals is uncustomary.
H S Suhas, Ketaki Utpat, Unnati Desai, Manoj Vedpathak, Jyotsna M Joshi   +4 more
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Limited Activity Of Miltefosine In Murine Models Of Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis And Disseminated Cryptococcosis [PDF]

, 2013
Miltefosine is an alkyl phosphocholine with good oral bioavailability and in vitro activity against Cryptococcus species that has gained interest as an additional agent for cryptococcal infections.
Bocanegra, Rosie, Kirkpatrick, William R., Najvar, Laura K., Patterson, Thomas F., Sorrell, Tania C., Wiederhold, Nathan P.   +5 more
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Liver dysfunction as the presenting feature of disseminated cryptococcosis

Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Disseminated cryptococcosis is rare in immunocompetent individuals with central nervous and respiratory systems being the most common initial sites of involvement. Liver dysfunction as a presenting feature of disseminated cryptococcosis has been reported
Shailaja Shukla, Jyoti Garg, Gunjan Mahajan, Sunita Sharma   +3 more
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A Case of “Cryptammonia”: Disseminated Cryptococcal Infection Generating Profound Hyperammonemia in a Liver Transplant Recipient

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma infections have been described as a cause of hyperammonemia syndrome leading to devastating neurological injury in the post-transplant period, most commonly in lung transplant recipients.
Steven M. Phillips DO, Stephanie M. Pouch MD, Denise J. Lo MD, Sheetal Kandiah MD, Koba A. Lomashvili MD, Ram A. Subramanian MD, Peter Moran PharmD, Alley Killian PharmD, Prem A. Kandiah MD   +8 more
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Disseminated cutaneous cryptococcosis in a patient with AIDS Criptococose cutânea disseminada em paciente com SIDA. Relato de caso

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2006
The authors study a patient carrying Aids, with exuberant dermatological manifestations of cryptococcosis. They stress the therapeutic effectiveness of short-term amphotericin B.
Sandra Lopes Mattos e Dinato, Marcelo Mattos e Dinato, Carla Patrícia Nakanishi, José Roberto Paes de Almeida, Ney Romiti   +4 more
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Cryptococcus, Pathological observations of five autopsy cases and one biopsy case [PDF]

, 1959
Pathologic, anatomical, and histological findings of 5 autopsy cases and one biopsy case of cryptococcosis have been described. Macroscopically the foci of the lung are grayish white or yellowish white in color and range in size from the small acinous ...
Inohara, Tsuyoshi, Kanamoto, Akihisa, Kuroda, Kiyoshi, Murase, Joji, Ogawa, Katsuo, Uejima, Akira   +5 more
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Cryptococcus neoformans chitin synthase 3 plays a critical role in dampening host inflammatory responses [PDF]

, 2020
Cryptococcus neoformans is the most common disseminated fungal pathogen in AIDS patients, resulting in ∼200,000 deaths each year. There is a pressing need for new treatments for this infection, as current antifungal therapy is hampered by toxicity and/or
Hole, Camaron R, Lam, Woei C, Lodge, Jennifer K, Upadhya, Rajendra   +3 more
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