ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2016
Point-of-Care Testing for Cryptococcal Disease Among Hospitalized Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Adults in Ethiopia.
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- Cryptococcal antigenemia and its predictors among HIV infected patients in resource limited settings: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Magnitude ofAfrican health sciences · 2020Pooled it
- Mortality from HIV-associated meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Pooled it
- CD4 Cell Count Threshold for Cryptococcal Antigen Screening of HIV-Infected Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018Pooled it
- Cryptococcal antigen titers and semi-quantitative assay scores among people with HIV-associated cryptococcal antigenemia.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2026Article
- Uptake of lumbar puncture and mortality among patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus disease who screened for serum cryptococcal-antigen in Africa.World journal of virology · 2025Article
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- Impact of a Cryptococcal meningitis diagnosis and treatment program at Lira Regional Referral Hospital in rural, Northern Uganda.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Performance of the Colloidal Gold Immunochromatography of Cryptococcal Antigen on Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2022Article
- High prevalence of Cryptococcal antigenemia using a finger-prick lateral flow assay in individuals with advanced HIV disease in Santarém Municipality, Brazilian Amazon Basin.Medical mycology · 2021Article
- Evaluation of a Cryptococcal Antigen Lateral Flow Assay and Cryptococcal Antigen Positivity at a Large Public Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Cryptococcal Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome: From Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers to Treatment Approaches.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Underlying Cryptococcal Diseases and the Correlation With Serum Cryptococcal Antigen Titers in Hospitalized HIV-Infected Patients Screened Positive for Cryptococcal Antigenemia.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2020Article
- The Burden of Fungal Infections in Ethiopia.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Cost-effectiveness of reflex laboratory-based cryptococcal antigen screening for the prevention and treatment of cryptococcal meningitis in Botswana.Wellcome open research · 2019Article
- Brief Report: Point of Care Cryptococcal Antigen Screening: Pipetting Finger-Prick Blood Improves Performance of Immunomycologics Lateral Flow Assay.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Article
- The epidemiology of febrile illness in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for diagnosis and management.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2018Review
- High Cryptococcal Antigen Titers in Blood Are Predictive of Subclinical Cryptococcal Meningitis Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Patients.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2018Article
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Abstract
In a cross-sectional study among hospitalized human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients in Ethiopia, we sought to determine the rates and predictors of cryptococcal disease and evaluate the test performance of a recently introduced point-of-care test for Cryptococcus neoformans detection in various biological samples. We tested serum, urine, and fingerstick blood samples from each patient with a cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay (CRAG LFA; Immuno Mycologic Inc., Norman, OK). Cerebrospinal fluid was collected at the discretion of the treating physician. Logistic regression was used to identify risk factors for a positive test result. Agreement between different sample types was also assessed. Among 198 hospitalized HIV-infected patients with a median CD4 count of 93 cells/mm
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