Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients hospitalized with HIV and low CD4 counts should receive routine cryptococcal antigen testing, according ...

The diagnosis of CM requires a high index of suspicion, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is a reduced standard of medical laboratory facilities and expertise. The role of detailed ...

Cryptococcal disease is principally caused by the encapsulated yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii, leading to life-threatening meningoencephalitis, particularly in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Screening for cryptococcal antigen in patients with late-stage HIV initiating ART could identify candidates for ...

A photomicrograph of the Cryptococcus fungus. www.einstein.yu.edu South Africa has launched the world’s largest national screening programme to detect cryptococcal meningitis – an AIDS-defining fungal ...

Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly invasive fungal infection which affects hundreds of thousands of HIV patients in the late stage of their disease every year. Crytococcal meningitis is a deadly ...

To the Editor: Beardsley et al. (Feb. 11 issue) 1 report on a randomized clinical trial in which a group of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–associated cryptococcal meningitis received ...

A new short course of treatment for HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis is as effective at preventing deaths as the current longer recommended regimen but causes far fewer serious side effects, ...

"The results of this phase 3 [AMBITION-cm] trial make it clear that this approach is just as good as the current World Health Organization-recommended first-line treatment in preventing death," first ...

Meningitis is an infection affecting the membranes that line the skull and spinal cord. Cryptococcal meningitis is a type of meningitis caused by a fungus called Cryptococcus. This type of meningitis ...