Open AccessCryptococcal meningitis: An under-reported disease from the hills of Uttarakhand: A hospital-based cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Aroop Mohanty,
Mohit Bhatia,
Ankita Kabi,
Kuhu Chatterjee,
Neelam Kaistha,
Balram Ji Omar,
Puneet Kumar Gupta,
Pratima Gupta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_216_19
Subject(s) - medicine , cross sectional study , cryptococcal meningitis , environmental health , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pathology , viral disease
Cryptococcal meningitis is a fatal opportunistic neuroinfection and an AIDS defining illness. It can also occur in non-HIV patients who are immunodefecient due to chronic glucocorticoid use, organ transplantation, malignancy and sarcodiosis.