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Cryptococcus myelitis: Atypical Presentation of a Common Infection

Author(s) -

Tawanda Gumbo,

James Hakim,

Jens Mielke,

S. Siwji,

G. JustNübling,

Amr Ismail

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/319749

Subject(s) - medicine , cryptococcosis , myelitis , vertebral osteomyelitis , cryptococcus neoformans , meningitis , cryptococcus , osteomyelitis , presentation (obstetrics) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , spinal cord , immunology , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , psychiatry

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.

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