A Suspected Case of COVID-19-Induced Immunosuppression

While COVID-19 has gained popularity as a pandemic and as a cause of pulmonary-systemic disease, the condition continues to evolve our knowledge and understanding of immunology and medicine through its myriad clinical presentations. This article features a previously healthy 65-year-old female who p...

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Autores principales: Seffah, Kofi, Agyeman, Walter Y
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9812533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36620840
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32227
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description While COVID-19 has gained popularity as a pandemic and as a cause of pulmonary-systemic disease, the condition continues to evolve our knowledge and understanding of immunology and medicine through its myriad clinical presentations. This article features a previously healthy 65-year-old female who presented with sudden features of cryptococcal meningitis, the progression of which raises questions as to what role the virus plays in the innate, adaptive, and overall host factors leading to immunosuppression.
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spelling pubmed-98125332023-01-05 A Suspected Case of COVID-19-Induced Immunosuppression Seffah, Kofi Agyeman, Walter Y Cureus Internal Medicine While COVID-19 has gained popularity as a pandemic and as a cause of pulmonary-systemic disease, the condition continues to evolve our knowledge and understanding of immunology and medicine through its myriad clinical presentations. This article features a previously healthy 65-year-old female who presented with sudden features of cryptococcal meningitis, the progression of which raises questions as to what role the virus plays in the innate, adaptive, and overall host factors leading to immunosuppression. Cureus 2022-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9812533/ /pubmed/36620840 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32227 Text en Copyright © 2022, Seffah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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