Cases of disseminated cryptococcosis in intravenous drug abusers without HIV infection: A new risk factor?

Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease which has been characterized by its identified risk groups. There are many risk factors identified. We present a surprising four cases of disseminated cryptococcosis in intravenous drug abuse (IVDA) patients in a short period of time and in one geographical area, t...

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Autores principales: Shorman, Mahmoud, Evans, Derek, Gibson, Christy, Perfect, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27995054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.12.003
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description Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease which has been characterized by its identified risk groups. There are many risk factors identified. We present a surprising four cases of disseminated cryptococcosis in intravenous drug abuse (IVDA) patients in a short period of time and in one geographical area, this observation suggest that there may be a new association with IVDA and cryptococosis.
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spelling pubmed-51549632016-12-19 Cases of disseminated cryptococcosis in intravenous drug abusers without HIV infection: A new risk factor? Shorman, Mahmoud Evans, Derek Gibson, Christy Perfect, John Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Cryptococcosis is a fungal disease which has been characterized by its identified risk groups. There are many risk factors identified. We present a surprising four cases of disseminated cryptococcosis in intravenous drug abuse (IVDA) patients in a short period of time and in one geographical area, this observation suggest that there may be a new association with IVDA and cryptococosis. Elsevier 2016-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5154963/ /pubmed/27995054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.12.003 Text en © 2016 International Society for Human and Animal Mycology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Cases of disseminated cryptococcosis in intravenous drug abusers without HIV infection: A new risk factor?
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