ArticleMedical mycology case reports2020
"False negative" CSF cryptococcal antigen with clinical meningitis: Case reports and review of literature.
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- Rapid respiratory cryptococcosis detection using targeted next-generation sequencing.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Management and outcome of intracranial fungal infections in children and adults in Africa: a scoping review.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Mid-Upper Arm Circumference Is a Strong Predictor of Mortality Among Ugandan Adults With HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Prospective Cohort Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Complex Decisions in HIV-Related Cryptococcosis: Addressing Second Episodes of Cryptococcal Meningitis.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2024Review
- Comparing the Performance of Two Cryptococcal Antigen Detection Tests: Chemiluminescence vs Colloidal Gold Methods.Infection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- Clinical and Metagenomic Characterization of Neurological Infections of People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Peruvian Amazon.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Fungal Infections in Lung Transplant Recipients.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- False-negative cerebral spinal fluid cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay due to postzone phenomenon in a patient with disseminated cryptococcal disease: a case report.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Article
- The Brief Case: the CrypticJournal of clinical microbiology · 2023Review
- Digital Platform for Automatic Qualitative and Quantitative Reading of a Cryptococcal Antigen Point-of-Care Assay Leveraging Smartphones and Artificial Intelligence.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Enclosed and silent growth of chronic cryptococcal meningitis.BMJ case reports · 2022Article
- Point of care tests for invasive fungal infections: a blueprint for increasing availability in Africa.Therapeutic advances in infectious diseaseReview
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Abstract
There is an increasing recognition of patients presenting with cryptococcal meningitis despite having a negative CSF cryptococcal antigen (CrAg). In this report, we describe three cases of patients with advanced immunosuppression who presented to hospital with "false negative" CSF cryptococcal antigen, two of whom had a positive fungal culture. We describe the challenge of CSF-CrAg negative cryptococcal meningitis and explore ways to overcome this challenge using newer diagnostic techniques.
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