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Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India
Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection usually seen in immunocompromised individuals. Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–seropositive participants, cryptococcal meningitis is the second most common cause of opportunistic neuro-infection, but at times, it occurs in non-HIV patients who a...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041285 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_66_19 |
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author | Jha, Mithilesh Kumar Mohanty, Aroop Gupta, Pratima |
author_facet | Jha, Mithilesh Kumar Mohanty, Aroop Gupta, Pratima |
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description | Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection usually seen in immunocompromised individuals. Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–seropositive participants, cryptococcal meningitis is the second most common cause of opportunistic neuro-infection, but at times, it occurs in non-HIV patients who are immunodeficient due to other reasons like chronic glucocorticoid use, organ transplantation, malignancy, and sarcoidosis and has rarely been described in diabetic patients. We present a fatal case of Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a 56-year-old HIV-negative male patient with diabetes mellitus. |
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spelling | pubmed-64827142019-04-30 Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India Jha, Mithilesh Kumar Mohanty, Aroop Gupta, Pratima J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection usually seen in immunocompromised individuals. Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–seropositive participants, cryptococcal meningitis is the second most common cause of opportunistic neuro-infection, but at times, it occurs in non-HIV patients who are immunodeficient due to other reasons like chronic glucocorticoid use, organ transplantation, malignancy, and sarcoidosis and has rarely been described in diabetic patients. We present a fatal case of Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a 56-year-old HIV-negative male patient with diabetes mellitus. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6482714/ /pubmed/31041285 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_66_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Jha, Mithilesh Kumar Mohanty, Aroop Gupta, Pratima Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India |
title | Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India |
title_full | Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India |
title_fullStr | Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India |
title_full_unstemmed | Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India |
title_short | Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India |
title_sort | cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in south india |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31041285 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_66_19 |
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