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Case Reports. Disseminated cryptococcoses without cryptococcal antigen detection
Author(s) -
Tintelnot Kathrin
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
mycoses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.13
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1439-0507
pISSN - 0933-7407
DOI - 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2000.00556.x
Subject(s) - antigen , cryptococcosis , medicine , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cryptococcal meningitis , cryptococcus , pathology , viral disease , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
During the last decade cryptococcoses were most frequently diagnosed in AIDS patients, where serologically high amounts of glucoronoxylomannan (GXM) were detectable. Disseminated cryptococcoses without cryptococcal antigen detection is unusual. Between August and October 1998 disseminated cryptococcoses were diagnosed in three patients consecutively although cryptococcal antigen was not detectable. Only one of the patients was HIV infected.