A case of an AIDS patient with Cryptococcus neoformans infection

Cryptococcosis is the most common fungal disease in HIV-infected persons. It is known as the AIDS-defining illness for 60-70% of HIV-infected patients. Before antiretroviral therapy (ARV) was discovered, fungal and other opportunistic infections were a major problem for people with advanced HIV/AIDS...

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Autores principales: Bramantono, Bramantono, Danial, Ahmad, Hadi, Usman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774647
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.88.20406
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description Cryptococcosis is the most common fungal disease in HIV-infected persons. It is known as the AIDS-defining illness for 60-70% of HIV-infected patients. Before antiretroviral therapy (ARV) was discovered, fungal and other opportunistic infections were a major problem for people with advanced HIV/AIDS. Presented here is a case of a 43-year-old man who was newly diagnosed HIV, in which he was admitted due to shortness of breath and decreased consciousness. His clinical symptoms, physical examination, laboratory and radiologic findings indicated a Cryptococcus neoformans infection. The patient had received treatment using anti-fungal and ARV that showed a clinical improvement during observation.
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spelling pubmed-73928752020-08-07 A case of an AIDS patient with Cryptococcus neoformans infection Bramantono, Bramantono Danial, Ahmad Hadi, Usman Pan Afr Med J Case Study Cryptococcosis is the most common fungal disease in HIV-infected persons. It is known as the AIDS-defining illness for 60-70% of HIV-infected patients. Before antiretroviral therapy (ARV) was discovered, fungal and other opportunistic infections were a major problem for people with advanced HIV/AIDS. Presented here is a case of a 43-year-old man who was newly diagnosed HIV, in which he was admitted due to shortness of breath and decreased consciousness. His clinical symptoms, physical examination, laboratory and radiologic findings indicated a Cryptococcus neoformans infection. The patient had received treatment using anti-fungal and ARV that showed a clinical improvement during observation. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7392875/ /pubmed/32774647 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.88.20406 Text en © Bramantono Bramantono et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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