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cryptococcal meningitis

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cryptococcal meningitis [‚krip·tə′käk·əl ‚men·ən′jīd·əs]
(medicine)
Inflammation of the meninges due to yeasts of the genusCryptococcus.


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In sub-Saharan Africa, cryptococcal meningitis occurs in 30% of AIDS patients and is likely to remain a substantial cause of death in these patients unless highly active antiretroviral therapy becomes available (6 8).
Antifungal susceptibilities of Cryptococcus neoformans by Procop, Gary W. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Mielke is part of a team desperately trying to diagnose and help treat cryptococcal meningitis, a form of the brain and spinal disease which afflicts HIV-positive men and women and is usually lethal if left untreated.
Publisher Perish by THOMPSON, NICHOLAS / Washington Monthly
Approved November 13, 1994 for the treatment of pediatric patients with cryptococcal meningitis and candida infections.
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