Cryptococcus myelitis: atypical presentation of a common infection.

Category Primary study
JournalClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Year 2001
Cryptococcus neoformans is associated with as much as 45% of meningitis in patients admitted for hospital care in Zimbabwe, and it is an important opportunistic infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. Cases of cryptococcosis presenting as a spinal cord syndrome have been reported from Zimbabwe and South Africa, but these were all cases of Cryptococcus vertebral osteomyelitis. We describe 3 unusual patients who presented with a myelitis-like syndrome without vertebral osteomyelitis.
Epistemonikos ID: 87eff1cdc9e1fc0c26003477801747fda1ae4a4c
First added on: Dec 08, 2021