PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | cryptococcal meningitis |
| Phenotype | C0025289|meningitis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21488192 | The organism disseminates hematogenously and has a propensity to localize to the central nervous system, causing meningitis/meningoencephalitis.4,5 although the incidence of cryptococcal meningitis has declined in hiv patients who are undergoing antiretroviral therapy, cryptococcal disease remains a leading cause of mortality in the developing world.6 c. neoformans usually infects hiv infected patients with cd4 t lymphocytes counts <100 cells/µl. |
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