Open AccessCryptococcus gattii meningitis in a diabetic adult in South India
Author(s) -
Mithilesh Kumar Jha,
Aroop Mohanty,
Pratima Gupta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_66_19
Subject(s) - medicine , cryptococcus gattii , meningitis , cryptococcal meningitis , cryptococcosis , cryptococcus , traditional medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , immunology , pediatrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , viral disease , biology
Cryptococcosis is the opportunistic infection usually seen in immunocompromised individuals. Among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seropositive participants, cryptococcal meningitis is the second most common cause of opportunistic neuro-infection, but at times, it occurs in non-HIV patients who are immunodeficient due to other reasons like chronic glucocorticoid use, organ transplantation, malignancy, and sarcoidosis and has rarely been described in diabetic patients. We present a fatal case of Cryptococcus gattii meningitis in a 56-year-old HIV-negative male patient with diabetes mellitus.