ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2013
Meningitis Due to Cryptococcus gattii in an Immunocompetent Patient.
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- A rare case of cryptococcal meningitis with infarction of the splenium of the corpus callosum in an immunocompetent patient: A case report.SAGE open medical case reports · 2024Article
- Cryptococcal Meningitis in Young, Immunocompetent Patients: A Single-Center Retrospective Case Series and Review of the Literature.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Review
- Cryptococcus gattii Meningitis in a Previously Healthy Young Woman: A Case Report.Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine · 2021Article
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- Cryptococcal meningitis: An under-reported disease from the hills of Uttarakhand: A hospital-based cross-sectional study.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019Article
- Ecoepidemiology of Cryptococcus gattii in Developing Countries.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Targeting the Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii cell wall using lectins: study of the carbohydrate-binding domain.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2015Article
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Abstract
The incidence of cryptococcal infection is high in developing countries such as India. Cryptococcus gattii, formerly known as Cryptococcus neoformans var gattii, is an encapsulated yeast that causes disease in both immunocompetent and immunosupressed individuals. The organism enters via respiratory tract and causes a spectrum of illness ranging from asymptomatic infection to severe illness, including pneumonia and disseminated infection involving multiple sites, including the central nervous system, eyes and skin. Cryptococcal meningitis is generally considered as rare in immunocompetent patients; therefore, specific treatment is not implemented until the organism is identified or a cryptococcal antigen is detected. We describe the case of a 30-years-old man without prior medical history who presented with meningitis and was treated successfully. This case illustrates the importance of considering infectious causes such as C.gattii in the differential diagnosis of meningitis, regardless of the patient's immune status.
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